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Date:      25 Jan 2001 21:44:02 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Charlie Root <root@penx.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ftp in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense.
Message-ID:  <xzpy9vzs6p9.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Charlie Root's message of "Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:37:17 -0800 (PST)"
References:  <200101241537.f0OFbHd07268@granny.bwa.penx.com>

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Charlie Root <root@penx.com> writes:
> granny# mk
> >> mysql-3.23.32.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
> >> Attempting to fetch from http://www.kernelnotes.de/MySQL/Downloads/MySQL-3.23/.
> Requesting http://www.kernelnotes.de/MySQL/Downloads/MySQL-3.23/mysql-3.23.32.tar.gz
> ftp: Error retrieving file: 404 Not Found
>  
> ftp in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense.
> Segmentation fault - core dumped
> >> Attempting to fetch from http://www.mysql.net/Downloads/MySQL-3.23/.
> Requesting http://www.mysql.net/Downloads/MySQL-3.23/mysql-3.23.32.tar.gz    

Why are you using ftp(1) to fetch ports instead of fetch(1) which is
the default? Don't even think about it - ftp(1)'s HTTP support is
symbolic at best. It pretends to be an HTTP/1.0 client, but in
practice is little more than an HTTP/0.9 client using HTTP/1.0 request
syntax.

DES
-- 
Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org


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