Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 11:27:20 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetch(1) / fetch(3) patchkit available Message-ID: <199905281027.LAA03381@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "28 May 1999 11:21:13 %2B0200." <xzpso8ho8hi.fsf@localhost.ping.uio.no>
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> We need generic FTP and HTTP functionality for a variety of
> applications (first and foremost, sysinstall and pkg_add(1)), and we
> need a command-line interface to the FTP and HTTP protocols
> (fetch(1)). We also need an interactive interface to the FTP protocol
> (for doing stuff like proxying). These are two very different needs;
> the fetch(3) library is well suited to the former three applications
> (sysinstall, pkg_add(1) and fetch(1)) but poorly suited to the latter
> (ftp(1)).
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What about a non-interactive command for pushing stuff via ftp/http ?
This has always been lacking IMHO (``ftp -n <<EOF'' is full of
gotchas).
I haven't actually looked at libfetch, but I would think that the
functionality should be there.
> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no
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