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authorjoerg <joerg@pkgsrc.org>2008-02-07 01:48:22 +0000
committerjoerg <joerg@pkgsrc.org>2008-02-07 01:48:22 +0000
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Import libfetch-2.0, based on the FreeBSD version of today with a number
of smaller changes to not depend on sys/param.h. This library is intended to replace the tnftp dependency in pkg_install.
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+libfetch provides a high-level interface for retreiving and uploading
+files using Uniform Resource Locators (URLs).
+
+The library implements:
+
+ * local file access (file://)
+ * FTP
+ * HTTP
+ * HTTPS (optional, using OpenSSL)
+
+FTP and HTTP proxies can be used.