FreeBSD tip

Because I spent more than 5 minutes wondering why portsnap does not work correctly, I prefer to write the tip for anyone.

If you want to launch 'portsnap fetch' through an authenticated proxy, do not use:

HTTP_PROXY=http://user:passwd@ip:port/

but use

HTTP_PROXY=http://ip:port/

and

HTTP_PROXY_AUTH=basic:*:user:passwd

in your environment.