On 7/26/2011 12:09 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote:

<snip>
> HTGET supporting common HTTP URL/URI syntax
> (http://server.domain.extension/path/file.ext) is good enough already.
> your -userpass seems to indicate no complete syntax is possible, and
> portnumbers either assumed 80 or not changeable.
>
> http://username:password@server.domain.extension:port/path/file?foo#bar
>

The password option is nonstandard, but it makes the parsing of the URL 
easier.

I need to add two things to the documentation:

- nonstandard port numbers are supported using the expected syntax.
- an HTTP proxy can be used if the HTTP_PROXY variable is set.  I've not 
tested it though.


Mike



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