Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 00:20:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@sunbay.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/21476: ftp in 4.1-STABLE fails on http:// URLs Message-ID: <200009260720.AAA10292@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/21476; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@sunbay.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/21476: ftp in 4.1-STABLE fails on http:// URLs Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 10:13:23 +0300 On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 06:21:42PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov <ru@sunbay.com> writes: > > It is actually because RFC does not say that the HTTP/1.0 request without > > a Host: header MUST be answered with a 400 error. It may, however, be > > answered with a 404 error (like in this particular case). > > The bottom line being that your claim that Apache was not standards- > conforming was not correct in this case. > Yes, I was wrong. > Regarding the PR, I'd suggest that the originator considered using > fetch(1) instead of ftp(1) for HTTP as well as for simple, > non-interactive FTP requests. > > I'd also like to suggest that the URL functionality and the HTTP code > be ripped out of ftp(1), but I'd probably ble flamed to hell and back > by all the armchair generals out there, so I won't. > I am in favor of ripping this from ftp(1) though one may consider to merge the latest NetBSD's fetch.c which does: /* * Retrieve URL, via a proxy if necessary, using HTTP. * If proxyenv is set, use that for the proxy, otherwise try ftp_proxy or * http_proxy as appropriate. * Supports HTTP redirects. * Returns -1 on failure, 0 on completed xfer, 1 if ftp connection * is still open (e.g, ftp xfer with trailing /) */ And yes, it sends Host: header in requests. -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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