Re: proxy support for wget retriever

[Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>]

On Tue Jan 02, 2001 at 12:16:57PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> | If you can show me where it should give an error, I'll
> | add it right in...
> 
> Imho, it should require to get a hostname, and a directory.  My

Hmm.  I'm not sure I understand.  Assuming you are talking about the URL wget
is asked to retrieve, in wget.c open_socket() if gethostbyname(host) fails, it
calls error_msg_and_die("cannot resolve %s\n", host).  If the URL you fed to
wget is crap, then the GET will fail.  I can't know in advance either way.

Or am I misunderstanding you?

> Also, the manpage for setenv is not clear whether the value is copied
> or not.  If it is not, we should add a strdup around the
> debconf->value in the setenv.  (To prevent problems if we add more
> questions).

The source to setenv is clear.  It mallocs and copies as needed 
internally, so no, you do not need a persistant string.

 -Erik

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