Googling for 'squid rsync' suggests that squid has to be explicitly configured to allow rsync, e.g.
http://www.sai.msu.su/~er/rsync_proxy.html Why not ask the proxy administrators if they have rsync configured? On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Douglas Bates wrote: > My computers at my office will no longer be able to connect directly > to web sites etc. I will be going through a proxy server. The > particular server is running squid on port 3128. > > I have managed to configure web browsers, ssh, apt, svn and a whole > lot of other tools to use the proxy server but I haven't been able to > configure rsync. My usual method of updating my copy of the R-devel > sources is via > > cd my_R_devel_sources > svn up > ./tools/rsync-recommended > > cd my_R_build_directory > ... > > Can anyone offer suggestions on how to get rsync-recommended to work > through a proxy? I have set > > export RSYNC_PROXY="machine.name:3128" > > which I understand from the documentation is the magic environment > variable (I don't give the name of the server explicitly because it is > an open proxy). However, I still get > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/r-devel$ ./tools/rsync-recommended > bad response from proxy - HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden > rsync: failed to connect to machine.name: Success (0) > rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(94) > *** rsync failed to update Recommended files *** > Creating links > > Is it likely that the proxy server is not passing connections to port 873? > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
