Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 14:17:37 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update: fetch or phttpget? Message-ID: <20131111141737.05813fed@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <CAKoxK%2B578cNgbhpwB5_oX3SSxdH6dh0gSwYbPf%2Bn3TAA8Xx0xw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAKoxK%2B578cNgbhpwB5_oX3SSxdH6dh0gSwYbPf%2Bn3TAA8Xx0xw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 14:18:08 +0100
Luca Ferrari wrote:
> Hi all,
> I noted that freebsd-update uses phttpget as main downloader except in
> a point, where fetch(1) is used:
>
> fetch ${QUIETFLAG} http://${SERVERNAME}/${FETCHDIR}/latest.ssl
>
> Now, this causes problems with the authentication when behind a
> proxy, since phttpget and fetch seem to use a different approach to
> username/password authentication. In particular fetch handles an
> http_proxy variable that includes username/password, while phttpget
> does not.
> What is the rationale behind the usage of two downloader within the
> same script?
phttpget is very basic, but does support http pipelining, so it's much
faster downloading a lot of small files - in the script phttpget is
always used with xargs. fetch is used for individual files, it has more
features and better error reporting.
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