Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 19:20:03 -0800 (PST) From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/25494: fetch uses environment variable FTP_PROXY, ftp/lynx use ftp_proxy Message-ID: <200103070320.f273K3475490@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/25494; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: "Mike Pelley" <mike@pelley.com> Cc: <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: bin/25494: fetch uses environment variable FTP_PROXY, ftp/lynx use ftp_proxy Date: 07 Mar 2001 04:10:00 +0100 "Mike Pelley" <mike@pelley.com> writes: > I'm not familiar with those discussions - it does seem to provide me with > the functionality I need behind the proxies at work but obviously there are > other problems (although horribly useless and broken is not true for > everyone). Trust me, it's horribly useless and broken. It's barely more functional than an HTTP/0.9 client - the only part of HTTP/1.0 it actually implements correctly is parsing the Content-Length header. It can't talk to virtual hosts (except through a proxy), and it can't fetch the output of a CGI script (no chunk decoder), to name only two major shortcomings. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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