From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Mar 10 9:34:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from aes.thinksec.com (aes.thinksec.com [193.212.248.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E952237B71A for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 09:34:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@thinksec.com) Received: (from des@localhost) by aes.thinksec.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f2AHYEv01957; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 18:34:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@thinksec.com) X-Authentication-Warning: aes.thinksec.com: des set sender to des@thinksec.com using -f X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ To: Peter Pentchev Cc: Stephane.Lentz@ansf.alcatel.fr, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: curl 7.6.1 port : HTTP proxy not working References: <20010309152555.A25496@nickfury.netfr.alcatel.fr> <20010309200832.A25927@nickfury.netfr.alcatel.fr> <20010310164036.A400@ringworld.oblivion.bg> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 10 Mar 2001 18:34:13 +0100 In-Reply-To: Peter Pentchev's message of "Sat, 10 Mar 2001 16:40:36 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Peter Pentchev writes: > I don't know about downloading, but fetch(1) does not support uploads, > at least not that I'm aware of. That's why it's called fetch(1) :) > Besides, fetch(1) is more or less > FreeBSD-specific, and people with that Finnish-OS background might be > used to curl syntax already, or may choose to use the same tool under > various OS's. Yep - that Finnish OS is normally distributed with a C library that's too broken for libfetch to even build on that system. > I don't think this counts as 'much more powerful', but curl sure does > have some strong points (whereas fetch(1) unarguably has others :) I was actually hoping to hear something like "curl can fetch this file but fetch(1) can't" so that I could sit down with the code for an hour or two and then answer back "it can now" :) DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@thinksec.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message