Re: proxy support for wget retriever
On Tue Jan 02, 2001 at 11:00:49AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Joey Hess
>
> | Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> | >
> | > I think the patch is pretty self-explanatory. It adds proxy support
> | > for wget, and additionally, it _requires_ the user to input hostname
> | > and directory.
> | >
> | > Could somebody review it and apply (I'm in the NM queue and don't have an
> | > account on debian.org).
> |
> | I've applied it with several modifications (the loops around GET
> | commands made no sense).
>
> Thanks - the while loops where there so that we would get hostname and
> directory information. Else, wget-retriever should check that it has
> a hostname and directory before trying to call wget. Just having wget
> dying isn't a very nice thing to do, imho. Especially when we are
> using busybox wget which doesn't give any error messages.
If you can show me where it should give an error, I'll
add it right in...
-Erik
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