[Freeciv] Re: metaserver help

[Paul Dean <Paul.Dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Mallatt <jjm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> At 2000/02/28 10:04 , Paul Dean wrote:
> >The metaserver won't serve me.  One reason why would be if it uses
> >port 80 for some reason.  Everything through port 80 on my hub has to
> >go through a certain proxy and if not it just hangs.  
> >
> >Would that be right?  If so how can I tell it to use a proxy?
> 
> >From the README file:
> 
> 2) If the Metaserver button in the connection dialog doesn't work,
>    check if your ISP uses a mandatory WWW proxy and make civclient
>    use it through the $http_proxy environment variable.  For instance,
>    if the proxy is proxy.myisp.com port 8888, set $http_proxy
>    to http://proxy.myisp.com:8888/ before starting the client.

Thanks a lot.  I imagined that if I downloaded the source again it
might tell me, but didn't want to make the big download.

Thanks,
Paul.