Bug#64179: stop button while downloading over http does nothing

[m.harkema@gmx.net (Marcel Harkema)]

On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 21:50 +0200, Marcel Harkema wrote:

> On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 22:32 -0700, Randolph Chung wrote:
> 
> > > When you're downloading the base system via dbootstrap and realize the
> > > connection was lost (even though dbootstrap didn't notice), trying to press
> > > enter to make it stop doesn't work. You have to kill dbootstrap by hand to make
> > > it restart and try again (with no resume at all :( )
> > 
> > marcel: any ideas? i'll take a look at this tomorrow i guess.... can also
> > try to work http reget in.
> > 
> > randolph
> 
>   No ideas yet.  I plan to look at the code on wednesday night.  Embedding a
>   full http client is still a good idea imho, since the current code is only
>   a hack.  Unfortunately the 'snarf' stuff was never finished.

  Ack, I thought you were mailing about the 'powerpc http' bug... I really
  should read all of the mail before I reply.  I do have an idea what is
  wrong here.  Anyway, will also look at this bug tomorrow night.

  Cheers,

         Marcel