Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 19:40:06 -0800 (PST) From: "Mike Pelley" <mike@pelley.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/25494: fetch uses environment variable FTP_PROXY, ftp/lynx use ftp_proxy Message-ID: <200103070340.f273e6v77684@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/25494; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Mike Pelley" <mike@pelley.com> 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: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 22:32:30 -0500 > 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. That's not horribly useless and broken - that's limited. Oddly enough, none of these problems have caused me any trouble retrieving via HTTP. This is off-topic however. I think the patch should be applied to improve consistency, but to each his own. Mike. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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