simple patch for portsnap to use wget

[Vincent Hoffman]

On 28/11/2012 08:52, Luca Ferrari 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.
> 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.
Have you tried using
HTTP_PROXY_AUTH variable as per fetch(3) instead?
added in
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.sbin/portsnap/phttpget/phttpget.c?revision=150461&view=markup
fixed more in
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.sbin/portsnap/phttpget/phttpget.c?revision=156405&view=markup

Not that i have tested (I have one machine going via a proxy but its
firewalled rather than AUTHed)

Vince

>
> Regards,
> Luca
>
>
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