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LemmingKing

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Registered: 2008-10-31

Posts: 2

ftp_proxy environment variable stopped working

Hi!

I encounter a problem with proxy settings.
Some time ago my environment variables worked just fine, but now I can't wget anything from ftp and can't install packages from ftp mirror, but http still works.

My proxy settings are:

export http_proxy=http://12.12.12.40:8080
export ftp_proxy=http://12.12.12.40:8080

12.12.12.40 - my Windows computer with FreeProxy installed (no username/password needed).

Any time I'm trying to download ftp://<anything> using wget I get the following message:

Connecting to 12.12.12.40:8080... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found

As I mentioned before, http works just fine (even the same url with ftp:// replaced with http://).

I'm still kind of newby in linux, so can't realize, why this is happening.
Please answer if you can guess where this problem comes from.

Thanks