simple patch for portsnap to use wget
Ronald Klop
ronald-freebsd8 at klop.yi.org
Wed Nov 28 10:47:17 UTC 2012
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:52:57 +0100, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978 at infinito.it>
wrote:
>> Certainly not with a dependency on wget, which is not part of the base
>> system. Use fetch instead.
>>
>
> Right, so I'm wondering why not using fetch instead of phttpget by
> default.
Phttpget is more efficient because it uses http pipelining.
http://www.daemonology.net/phttpget/
> However I've rewritten everything so that now it allows for the
> configuration of fetch or not. The only change is that in the case of
> fetch the server name must be used with a protocol since fetch expects
> a full URL and not a server name.
>
> I vote for using fetch by default instead of phttpget.
Why not fix the original problem (of url parsing) in phttpget?
>
> Regards,
> Luca
Ronald.
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