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

[karlheg@bittersweet.inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom)]

>>>>> "Marcel" == Marcel Harkema <m.harkema@gmx.net> writes:

    Marcel> 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.

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

 This is fixed in 2.2.15 - I just tested it.