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On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Lars Engels wrote:

> I just stumbled upon this rather outdated thread...
>
> On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 15:09:52 +0400, Ilya Bakulin wrote: [...]
>>> wget curl links/lynx
>> This is Ports software, we may try to modify it and even send patches to 
>> upstream, or maintain our local patches. I wanted to focus on base system 
>> components during GSoC, but it doesn't hurt to try to capsicumize these 
>> tools either.
>
> fetch(1) is similar to wget and curl and is part of the base system, so 
> would this be a candidate?

I'd think fetch would be quite a good candidate -- most of its work is done as 
a pipeline between a socket and a file, and sandboxing the gubbins that sits 
in the middle of that pipeline would be quite beneficial.

Robert