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From: "Mike Pelley" <mike@pelley.com>
Subject: Re: bin/25494: fetch uses environment variable FTP_PROXY, ftp/lynx use ftp_proxy
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The following reply was made to PR bin/25494; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Mike Pelley" <mike@pelley.com>
To: "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" <des@ofug.org>
Cc: <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: bin/25494: fetch uses environment variable FTP_PROXY, ftp/lynx use ftp_proxy
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 22:32:30 -0500

 > Trust me, it's horribly useless and broken. It's barely more
 > functional than an HTTP/0.9 client - the only part of HTTP/1.0 it
 > actually implements correctly is parsing the Content-Length header. It
 > can't talk to virtual hosts (except through a proxy), and it can't
 > fetch the output of a CGI script (no chunk decoder), to name only two
 > major shortcomings.
 
 That's not horribly useless and broken - that's limited.  Oddly enough, none
 of these problems have caused me any trouble retrieving via HTTP.
 
 This is off-topic however.  I think the patch should be applied to improve
 consistency, but to each his own.
 
 Mike.
 

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