work of Luke Mewburn.
This includes, but is not limited to :
- commandline editing and history.
- local and remote filename completion.
- a new progress display.
- the ability to access files using either the ftp or http protocols,
and use http proxies for ftp transfers.
The FreeeBSD "restricted ports" functionality was preserved.
Obtained from: NetBSD
terminated properly. Fix is from the PR and works for the test cases I
threw at it. Should be safe and desirable for back porting to 2.2 or
earlier if there are people still comitting to -stable.
Submitted by: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
Closes PR: 1864
