From owner-cvs-usrbin Sat Jul 26 12:51:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA16688 for cvs-usrbin-outgoing; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 12:51:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from veda.is (root@veda.is [193.4.230.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA16648; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 12:51:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ubiq.veda.is (adam@ubiq.veda.is [193.4.230.60]) by veda.is (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA09100; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 19:51:10 GMT From: Adam David Received: (from adam@localhost) by ubiq.veda.is (8.8.6/8.8.5) id TAA00505; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 19:51:08 GMT Message-Id: <199707261951.TAA00505@ubiq.veda.is> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/fetch fetch.1 fetch.h http.c main.c In-Reply-To: from "[______ ______]" at "Jul 26, 97 09:01:13 pm" To: ache@nagual.pp.ru (=?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?=) Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 19:51:07 +0000 (GMT) Cc: wollman@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-usrbin@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-usrbin@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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