Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 08:29:26 +0900 From: Westbay Family <westbay@seaple.icc.ne.jp> To: Herve Quiroz <herve.quiroz@esil.univ-mrs.fr> Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT: Patchset website (was: Re: 1.3.1 patchset 8) Message-ID: <FDBA3160-3FAA-11D7-A8D5-000A9575BE46@seaple.icc.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <20030213161620.M92438@puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr>
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Quiroz wrote:
> As I am using my FreeBSD box to develop, I haven't even installed
> Mozilla
> and I use elinks for almost any web surfing (Javadocs for the most
> part).
> The same goes when I install my system, and here's the problem. The
> licence agreement stuff on the patchset website won't let me download
> the
> patch with links, and neither with elinks nor Opera. I mean it is quite
> annoying to have to install the whole system (because mozilla
> represents a
> huge load of packages to install regarding dependencies) before
> installing
> the most important to my eyes: the JDK ;)
I understand very well. I ssh into my FreeBSD server which isn't even
in the same country I am and have tried it with Lynx-ssl. Can't be
done.
The work around I found was to use Mozilla locally until after the
licensing is confirmed. Then copy the link to the actual zip/tar.gz
file(s) and paste to the open remote ssh session prefixed by "fetch ".
So it looks something like:
$ fetch http://the.jdk.source.url;sessionid
Because the session ID is part of the GET, it works from the remote box
despite having a different URL.
It would be nice if Sun would make their site work with text-based
browsers. I think I had the same problem with downloading the patch.
But it's been a while.
---
Michael Westbay
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