Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 20:30:05 -0800 (PST) From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/25494: fetch uses environment variable FTP_PROXY, ftp/lynx use ftp_proxy Message-ID: <200103070430.f274U5f86727@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/25494; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/25494: fetch uses environment variable FTP_PROXY, ftp/lynx use ftp_proxy Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 04:19:54 +0000 Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> wrote: > > 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. It'll never see HTTP/1.1 chunked content encoding because it's an HTTP/1.0 client. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch fanf@covalent.net dot@dotat.at VIKING NORTH UTSIRE SOUTH UTSIRE: SOUTHEASTERLY 5 INCREASING 7 OR GALE 8. RAIN LATER. GOOD BECOMING MODERATE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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