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Author SHA1 Message Date
jmg
66af2c92cc fix restarting http transfers and understanding response from server.
Slight modification of patch by wollman.

Closes PR#2870

Reviewed by:	wollman
Submitted by:	Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
1997-03-06 20:01:32 +00:00
fenner
d0ff874c89 Fix FTP_PROXY to use user@host[@port] for FTP proxy and eliminate
undocumented FTP_PROXY_USER
Make FTP file errors contian hostname and path.
Pass the FTP port to libftp.
Partially un-HTMLify error messages returned from server
Handle "HTTP NNN" instead of "HTTP/V.vv NNN" response sent by
	pre-HTTP/1.0 servers

Reviewed by:		wollman
1997-03-05 18:57:16 +00:00
wollman
062bd92d8c Fix remote request for HTTP proxies. Should close PR#2670. 1997-02-11 20:46:06 +00:00
wollman
37ca85c089 Some bug-fixes, clean-ups, and one new feature:
- Fix the bug with URIs of the form ftp://host/filename.
- Fix some more string-termination bugs in util.c.
- Use safe_malloc() rather than testing the return value of
  regular malloc() in 15 places.
- Implement HTTP authentication, for both servers and proxies.
  Currently only ``basic'' authentication is supported; This Is A Bug
  (but less of one tjhan nmot supporting any authentication).

I think there is only one more feature which is required for full
HTTP/1.1 support, which is Transfer-Encoding: chunked; this should
not be toohard, but it isn't very important, either.
1997-02-05 19:59:18 +00:00
wollman
827e39354a Some fixes for HTTP:
1) Implement redirects (or try to, at least).
2) Implement automatic retry after 503 errors when Retry-After is given.
3) Implement a -a flag to enable both of these behaviors.
4) Recognize Transfer-Encoding headers and emit a warning that the file
  is likely to be damaged.
5) Bug fix: only write the amount of data we read.
6) Actually document some of these.
7) Fix the usage message to display flags in semi-alphabetical order.
1997-01-31 19:55:51 +00:00
wollman
444cbb04ee Here is my long-threatened revamping of fetch. Jean-Marc probably won't
recognize it any more.  This makes the following significant changes:

- The main body of the program doesn't know a thing about URIs,
  HTTP, or FTP.  This makes it possible to easily plug in other
  protocols.  (The next revision will probably be able to dynamically
  add new recognizers.)

- There are no longer arbitrary timeouts for the protocols.  If you want
  to set one for yourself, use the environment variables.

- FTP proxies are now supported (if I implemented it right).

- The HTTP implementation is much more complete, and can now do restarts,
  preserve modtimes, and mrun in mirror mode.  It's not yet up to 1.1,
  but it's getting there.

- Transaction TCP is now used for sending HTTP requests.  The HTTP/1.1 syntax
  for requesting that the connection be closed after one request is
  implemented.

In all of this, I have doubtless broken somebody.  Please test it and tell me
about the bugs.
1997-01-30 21:43:44 +00:00