src/usr.bin/fetch/fetch.h, branch release/3.3.0_cvs

This commit was manufactured by cvs2svn to create tag

1999-09-16T08:26:13+00:00

'RELENG_3_3_0_RELEASE'.

This commit was manufactured to restore the state of the 3.3-RELEASE image.
Releases prior to 5.3-RELEASE are omitting the secure/ and crypto/ subdirs.

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$

1999-08-29T15:57:45+00:00

Add -s option, just report size of file that would be fetched.

1998-12-08T13:00:49+00:00

Reviewed by:	-current list

Add -S flag; this is benign since fetch's behavior is unchanged if you

1998-09-20T00:01:26+00:00

don't use it.  That's why I'm bringing it in during our "code slush"
Submitted by:	Stefan Esser

Add -t option which turns T/TCP off as workaround for some broken servers

1997-08-05T20:18:39+00:00

Submitted by: Marc Slemko

Provide a new `-b' flag to work around some broken HTTP/TCP implementations

1997-07-25T19:35:44+00:00

that can't deal with a half-closed connection.

Some bug-fixes, clean-ups, and one new feature:

1997-02-05T19:59:18+00:00

- 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.

Some fixes for HTTP:

1997-01-31T19:55:51+00:00

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.

Here is my long-threatened revamping of fetch. Jean-Marc probably won't

1997-01-30T21:43:44+00:00

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.