Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 21:30:20 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd distfile download Message-ID: <200609042130.21660.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <44FA2E1B.6040600@alzatex.com> References: <44FA2E1B.6040600@alzatex.com>
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On Sunday 03 September 2006 02:21, Loren M. Lang wrote: > I have a port I am writing which uses an unusual way of distributing > tarballs. The only download for official sources that I can tell is > through their web source control interface. They have a URL which > provides a tarball of a tagged version from their source control > software. The URL is > > http://new.openspf.org/source/software/sendmail-spf-milter/tags/1.42.1.tar. >gz?view=tar > > This causes fetch and wget to save the file as 1.42.1.tar.gz?view=tar, > but netscape removes the ?view=tar. Just out of curiosity I ran fetch "http://new.openspf.org/source/software/sendmail-spf-milter/tags/1.42.1.tar.gz" and it fetches the same file without using the ?view=tar part.
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