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

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

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.

  Cheers,

         Marcel