Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 01:15:39 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: fetch extension - use local filename from content-dispositionheader (new diff) Message-ID: <200512310115.40490.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200512301856.28800.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <20051229221459.A17102@cons.org> <868xu22mmp.fsf@xps.des.no> <200512301856.28800.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Friday 30 December 2005 06:56 pm, John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday 30 December 2005 06:25 pm, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > > Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> writes: > > > Ok, how about [...] > > > > how about I spell it out as simply as I can: "no" > > Nice to see your concern for actual users. I guess people should just go > use wget or curl instead? For that matter, why stick with FreeBSD when y= ou > get to endure such helpful attitudes? Offering suggestions rather than > just "piss off" would be more constructive. I understand that the new > off-by-default feature does allow one to blow one's foot off, but UN*X has > a long history of delivering bullets to one's feet in a speedy fashion wh= en > specifically requested. I haven't read any replies to this, but my conscience is killing me. I'm=20 sorry for the tone I used above, especially to Des. I am quite frustrated= =20 with some of the attitudes displayed in the thread to the original submitte= r=20 who is just trying to make FreeBSD better to get useful work done, but=20 blowing up is not the right way to handle that. Martin, if you are unable to make any headway getting your patch to fetch=20 integrated, and/or having anyone else come up with a better implementation = of=20 the feature you need, there are several other programs like curl or wget th= at=20 you can use instead. Given that Mozilla already does what you want it seem= s=20 likely that at least one open-source command-line URL fetcher will be willi= ng=20 to accept patches to implement the feature you need for your scripts. =2D-=20 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> =A0<>< =A0http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" =A0=3D =A0http://www.FreeBSD.org
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