emerge using ftp proxy need it to use http

[mikey0000]

i have null idea how emerge is doing this as ive set up http proxies and ftp and even rsync
and it continues to use ftp and i dont know where to change it. (becouse i cant ftp)which is the uni's fault
any help would be great thanks

[DontPanic]

If I understand your question correctly, you can set the default mirror with an option line in your make.conf file.

In my /etc/make.conf file, I have the following line to use Georgia Tech's http mirror:

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GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo "

[mikey0000]

close but no cigar, emerge is using http mirrors and http mirrors, http first
im behind a proxy and emerge is using a ftp proxy instead of a http
ill leave the output here :

localhost michael # emerge sun-jdk
Calculating dependencies... done!
>>> Verifying ebuild Manifests...

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0-r2 to /
>>> Downloading 'http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/jdk-6-dlj-linux-i586.bin'
Error in proxy URL "ftp"://ar****/ok*********@proxy.student.otago.ac.nz:3128: Must be HTTP.
>>> Downloading 'http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/jdk-6-dlj-linux-i586.bin'
Error in proxy URL ftp://*******/*********@proxy.student.otago.ac.nz:3128: Must be HTTP.
>>> Downloading 'http://download.java.net/dlj/binaries/jdk-6-dlj-linux-i586.bin'
Error in proxy URL ftp://********/***********@proxy.studen ... ac.nz:3128: Must be HTTP.
!!! Couldn't download 'jdk-6-dlj-linux-i586.bin'. Aborting.

the part which is important i have quotated, that needs to be http ...how do i change that?
and ive removed my username and password for obvious reasons

[DontPanic]

You may have already tried this, but have you entered a command like this:

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# export http_proxy="http://ar****/ok*********@proxy.student.otago.ac.nz:3128"

I found that in the Gentoo Handbook Chapter on setting up your network behind a proxy.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=3

[mikey0000]

yea thats actually refering to the files proxy.sh and proxy.csh or 99local so its no help, you cant just issue that command in console even if i could it would still make no difference. somewhere emerge has its proxy set to ftp.

[mikey0000]

i found out emerge uses wget so i placed the http proxy in the wget config file and it overrides the settings so solved.
now who the heck invented this terrible way of doing proxyies lol. Well theres my second project to get into when i start learning c++
now how do i configure rsync??? to use my proxy?