Do you aware that if wget tries download from https, and there is self-signed certificate, then it fails, and ask for --no-check-certificate option? How do your patch deal in that case?
2012/11/27 Luca Ferrari <fluca1...@infinito.it> > Hi all, > I was in trouble for a while because I was using FreeBSD behind an > http proxy (a palo alto for what it means) and the portsnap command > was unable to handle updates reporting always "file does not exist". > After digging I found that the problem was in the phttpget command > used internally from portsnap: phttpget is not able to handle an > http_proxy variable in the form of http://user:password@proxy:port > since the first colon is understood as a port separator and therefore > phttpget tries to connect to the host "user" on port > "password@proxy:port". Since I did not found much documentation about > how to solve the problem, and nobody on the forum was able to point me > in any direction (see > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=28849) I wrote a simple > patch to modify portsnap to use wget instead of phttpget. > Of course, this means you have to install wget first, and also the > laminating of the files to download has slightly changed within > portsnap, but I'm using it from several days and updates now and it > seems to work well. > Now the question is: should this patch, or better the idea of using > wget or another alike substitute to phttpget, be integrated into the > system? > I've tested it on FreeBSD-9-STABLE. > > Regards, > Luca > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > -- Regards, Alexander Yerenkow _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
