From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 7 4:57:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from atos.sr.se (atos.sr.se [192.121.194.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4798A37B417 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 04:57:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from honken.sr.se (honken.sr.se [134.25.128.27]) by atos.sr.se (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g07Cv1G29431; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 13:57:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA94352; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 13:57:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: (from root@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g07Cv1k91105; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 13:57:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.11.6/8.11.1av) id g07CuwC91097; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 13:56:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 13:56:58 +0100 From: Gunnar Flygt To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: Stable and ftp behind firewall Message-ID: <20020107135658.A85750@sr.se> Reply-To: Gunnar Flygt Mail-Followup-To: Gunnar Flygt , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , FreeBSD Stable References: <20020103141351.A79489@sr.se> <20020106021251.A50087@sr.se> <20020106153019.A62536@sr.se> <20020106162439.A63363@sr.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from des@ofug.org on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:58:42PM +0100 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:58:42PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Gunnar Flygt writes: > > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 03:54:30PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > Right. As a workaround, make these variables proper URLs (see the > > > fetch(3) man page). > > Yeah, works. But what has changed that changed the behaviour of the > > variable? And shouldn't it be documented? > > The URL parsing logic changed slightly so it would recognize local > file names as URLS with no scheme or host part. Unfortunately, this > means naked host names are interpreted as file names rather than host > names. > > The question is how to handle this in 4.5-RELEASE: > > 1) leave the code as-is, and document the change > 2) back out the changes to the URL parsing logic > 3) try to add more heuristics to distinguish the two cases > > Murray, what do you think? Since obviously not so many people where offended byt this change, why not just leave the code as-is and document the change! Or are there greater things than just this that becomes troublesome? Just my humble opinion. -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message