On Fri, 01 Mar 2002, Eamonn Shinners wrote:
> Does anybody know a site that I can use for the
> Software Manager update tool. Unfortunately, the
> network I have access to for high speed stuff has ftp
> firewalled off. I know the update can use http, but I
> don't know of a site that uses this.
Do they not have a proxy server you could connect to? Granted I guess
that'll need ftp to be opened to the proxy server, but it could be
reasonably argued that it'd save them bandwidth (and allow you anon ftp).
It's also pretty easy to set up. Not the solution you're looking for I
know,
Gavin
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