Fw: apt and HTTP
Sorry, this didn't go through the first time (I used my admin@ account,
which I actualy use for most of my e-mails but is blacklisted), so I'm
resending:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Timm Murray" <admin@madtimes.com>
To: <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 3:54 PM
Subject: apt and HTTP
> Hello all
>
> I am currently working on a system so that apt-get can gather packages off
> Freenet. This is accomplished by using a program that comes with Freenet
> called "FProxy", which was developed primarily to be used as a user
> interface to Freenet via a web browser. Since FProxy communicates to the
> browser over HTTP, we can also use FProxy and apt's pre-existing HTTP
> functionality to request Debian packages off Freenet. More details are
> available at http://eof.sourceforge.net/APT/index.html.
>
> However, I have one question: Does apt already properly encode GET
> parameters in a URI? If so, no further code is needed. If not, (in the
> long term) apt should at least encode a '/' to its GET equivelent (%2F),
if
> not all GET special chars.
>
> Until this functionality is included (assuming it's not already there) a
> meta-proxy can be written that apt will connect to, enocde the GET special
> chars, and forward it to FProxy.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Timm Murray
>
>
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