-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 19.07.2010 23:30, schrieb Doug Barton: > On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> What about removing the -A option from FETCH_ARGS to allow fetch to >> follow 302 code. > > I've always wondered why we have that in the defaults, perhaps someone > who knows can answer? If it served a valid purpose in the past, but does > not any longer, perhaps it's time to remove it?
The default is there because some web servers redirect to other sites (mirrors) with some 30X code, rather than reporting 404 - as documented in my fetch(1) manual page :-) I think I have quite recently seen this on SourceForge. At least if we remove that flag, we need to make sure fetch isn't fooled into an unterminated loop of redirects. Such as: redirect to actual address and more than a dozen redirects would abort and fail the fetch. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkxEyjoACgkQvmGDOQUufZX4ZQCfdDMxAH7XP40gorZu0BDX9Ak4 8xIAn3wlxOgSkjZqOtOM45sAWEs7ohuD =jz/w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
