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| author | njl <njl@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-04-22 22:33:29 +0000 |
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| committer | njl <njl@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-04-22 22:33:29 +0000 |
| commit | a22d768e0f5024d4990559f51e5455f257b3570a (patch) | |
| tree | f006c880f3cf9fdbcc8a2d241c97a04f1df75ce0 /lib/libfetch/fetch.3 | |
| parent | 328ad8c39b7fe076c817f11235241bfd1a53e8ba (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-a22d768e0f5024d4990559f51e5455f257b3570a.zip FreeBSD-src-a22d768e0f5024d4990559f51e5455f257b3570a.tar.gz | |
Add back the original behavior of changing the entire directory path at
once (CWD a/b/c vs. 3 CWDs). If an error occurs, we fall back to the default
method of a single CWD per directory element. Since this is technically
a violation of the basic FTP RFC, this behavior is under a compile-time
option FTP_COMBINE_CWDS and is off by default. It should work with most
Unix-based FTP daemons and can save latency.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libfetch/fetch.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libfetch/fetch.3 | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libfetch/fetch.3 b/lib/libfetch/fetch.3 index 4c399b7..b145bb0 100644 --- a/lib/libfetch/fetch.3 +++ b/lib/libfetch/fetch.3 @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd July 1, 1998 +.Dd April 22, 2007 .Dt FETCH 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -334,6 +334,16 @@ If no user name or password is given, the .Nm fetch library will attempt an anonymous login, with user name "anonymous" and password "anonymous@<hostname>". +.Pp +By default, +.Nm fetch +changes directories one at a time for the best compatibility with a wide +variety of servers. +If it is compiled with the +.Ql FTP_COMBINE_CWDS +flag, it will first try a single change directory command for the entire +path and fall back to the default scheme if an error occurred. +This can save latency when used with a slow network link. .Sh HTTP SCHEME The .Fn fetchXGetHTTP , |
