Re: wget vs curl (was ... Re: debian 8)
Hi.
On Wed, 3 Jun 2015 14:21:44 -0600
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> Reco wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 01:17:15PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> > > David Wright wrote:
> > > > Reco wrote:
> > > > > So, in the case of doubt - you use curl or rebuild wget against
> > > > > openssl. It's that simple.
> > >
> > > I know that people have strong feelings for and against curl and wget.
> > > I haven't ever understood it. You are the first to quantify why you
> > > think Debian's curl deals better with https sites. It appears the
> > > issues all surround https handling.
> >
> > Indeed. For example, I stumble upon #686837 on regular basis.
> >
> > And I'd like to add that wget that's linked against gnutls *would* be
> > good thing *if* it allowed to poke all GnuTLS knobs - #642051. But it
> > does not.
>
> You might be interested to see curl 7.42.1-2 entered unstable today.
> It immediately started core dumping for me. But see also Bug#787638
> where the affect was widespread and reportedly in libcurl3-gnutls. I
> know that wget and httping were segfaulting for me too. An upgrade
> later in the day pulled in more upgrades and solved the problem for me.
Seems to be resolved in unstable, according to the bug. Still, thanks
for the heads up.
> http://bugs.debian.org/342719
>
> Date: Sun, 03 May 2015 13:13:15 +0200
> Distribution: unstable
>
> * Switch curl binary to libcurl3-gnutls (Closes: #342719)
> This is the first step of a possible migration to a GnuTLS-only
> libcurl for Debian. Let's see how it goes.
>
> If you have opinions you might want to make your comments known.
I have two. First - it seems like an extreme attempt to fix #768522
(#342719 does not provide a meaningful explanation for the switch).
By itself, it's a good thing.
Second - from now upon unstable Debian has one tool less for testing
those misconfigured https web-servers. At least we still have socat for
this :(
But then again - there's nothing that a package rebuild cannot fix :)
Reco
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