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Date:      Sat, 26 Jul 1997 19:51:07 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Adam David <adam@veda.is>
To:        ache@nagual.pp.ru (=?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?=)
Cc:        wollman@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-usrbin@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/fetch fetch.1 fetch.h http.c main.c
Message-ID:  <199707261951.TAA00505@ubiq.veda.is>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970726210011.1213A-100000@nagual.pp.ru> from "[______ ______]" at "Jul 26, 97 09:01:13 pm"

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> >     usr.bin/fetch        fetch.1 fetch.h http.c main.c 
> >   Log:
> >   Provide a new `-b' flag to work around some broken HTTP/TCP implementations
> >   that can't deal with a half-closed connection.
> 
> Thanx, it works now. BTW, why not make '-b' as default case? Is it will
> cause performance degradation or something else?

IF this is made the default, then at least let it print a warning message
when a bogus remote implementation is detected. Otherwise we are allowing
breakage to be normal.

--
Adam David <adam@veda.is>



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