R devel - Jun 2005 - Running ./tools/rsync-recommended through a proxy

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

bates at bates4:/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?

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
>
> bates at bates4:/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?
>
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