HTGET was included in freedos 1.0 IIRC so you might find the source
with the distribution somewhere

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste-family.net> wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I recently discovered a cool file retriever for DOS called HTGET, written 
> many years ago by Ken Yap. This program uses WatTCP, and requires only a 
> working packet driver. Afetr some tests, it appears to work much better (at 
> least for me) than DOS ports of cURL and WGET (these are crashing sometimes 
> on my machine without apparent reason, and are way slower than HTGET). I am 
> planning to use it as the default retriever for FDUPDATE.
>
> The version I found is HTGET v1.05 
> (http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/net/htget.exe). 
> Unfortunately, I do not found the source code. Why would I like to have 
> sources? Well, HTGET is a HTTP/1.0 client which doesn't work properly when 
> asking a virtual-hosted server. There's no much to do to correct just, it 
> would just have to send a "Host:" header along with the request (yes, this 
> works fine on HTTP/1.0).
>
> I asked the program's author about that, and he told me that the latest 
> version he released is HTGET v1.02 (I got the source code from him as well).
>
> So here we are: Do you know who is behind HTGET v1.05? Where could I find 
> source code to it? If I had the source code for the latest version, I could 
> try fixing the virtual host issue....
>
> Best regards,
> Mateusz Viste
> --
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