From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: David Presotto To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] hget in proxy environment In-Reply-To: <32843.67.85.61.176.1076046873.squirrel@www.infernopark.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-nlqkuqyiliimvgzrlbnautordy" Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 12:04:51 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: cf383fe8-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-nlqkuqyiliimvgzrlbnautordy Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit httpproxy=proxy.name.or.address should work with hget. --upas-nlqkuqyiliimvgzrlbnautordy Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from plan9.cs.bell-labs.com ([135.104.9.2]) by plan9; Thu Feb 5 22:36:18 EST 2004 Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by plan9; Thu Feb 5 22:36:15 EST 2004 Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id A41D919D82; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 22:36:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.4.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 7EBBB19CEB; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 22:36:08 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id 3215919AFA; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 22:35:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from ensim.rackshack.net (unknown [216.127.72.23]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id B0C6819B61 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 22:35:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from infernopark.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by ensim.rackshack.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i165sX621885 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 00:54:33 -0500 Received: from 67.85.61.176 (SquirrelMail authenticated user vdharani@infernopark.com) by www.infernopark.com with HTTP; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 00:54:33 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <32843.67.85.61.176.1076046873.squirrel@www.infernopark.com> From: To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.5) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: [9fans] hget in proxy environment Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 00:54:33 -0500 (EST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on psuvax1.cse.psu.edu X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.8 required=5.0 tests=NO_REAL_NAME,RCVD_IN_NJABL, RCVD_IN_NJABL_RELAY,RCVD_IN_SORBS autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Level: * Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable hi, i tried to install plan9 using network method but couldnt. i noticed a couple of problems: 1. looks like hget is used to download the distribution. and looks like hget wont work where a proxy server serves the http requests (port 80 is disabled). 2. there was no indication that distribution failed. the installation proceeded to the next step as if things were fine. 3. in the next step where it asks to locate the distribution directory, i= t loops till you locate a directory where the distribution is found. you know you need to do something but it doesnt let you correct the problem. the issues here are minor and can wait to be fixed. however, i think it should be easy to fix hget so that it works well with proxy environment. any help appreciated. thanks dharani --upas-nlqkuqyiliimvgzrlbnautordy--