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Date:      Thu, 24 Jul 1997 02:55:53 +0400 (MSD)
From:      =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, FreeBSD-current <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 'fetch' error with http, fix wanted
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970724025336.5476A-100000@lsd.relcom.eu.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970723163735.28563C-100000@alive.znep.com>

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On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Marc Slemko wrote:

> It will happen at times if you try to talk to certain boxes with T/TCP
> like SunOS 4.x boxes.  Disable net.inet.tcp.rfc1644 and it should work. 
> You probably only see it with fetch because it appears to be more
> efficient with the way it sends the headers, so the request goes in a
> single packet with the SYN.  Haven't looked into it further to see who is
> at fault yet. 

I disable both rfc1323 and rfc1644 and it still not work (is it work for
you?)

> Oh yes, on a completely unrelated note... fetch is also broken in that it
> makes HTTP/1.1 requests but doesn't properly deal with the results.  This
> gains it absolutely nothing but hurts a lot in some case.  eg. fetch
> http://www.apache.org/index.html doesn't give the proper output because
> fetch doesn't know about chunked encoding.  It is bogus, both in theory
> and practice, for fetch to claim to be HTTP/1.1 if it can't handle chunked
> encodings.

I agree. Any objection to revert it to HTTP/1.0?

> > > > fetch http://www.lothlorien.net/~squirrel/giger/art/Necronomicon_I.jpg
> > > 
> > > > always says "connection reset by peer" in the middle of file transfer,

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@null.net>
http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/




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