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Subject: Re: simple patch for portsnap to use wget
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:47:58 +0100, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it>  
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>> Why don't you notify the author of phttpget and ask for a bugfix?
>
> I'd love to see a bugfix for this issue, you are right I would have
> been asked the author first....
> However I'm wondering why portsnap uses phttpget instead of fetch,
> that is available in base.
>
> Luca

phttpget is also in base
And here you can read why it is used:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2012-November/070878.html

Ronald