This is an example, I can download the file with firefox, but fetch hangs infinitely, even though HTTP_TIMEOUT is set. http://ftp5.de.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8-stable/All/ecore-txt-0.9.9.042.tbz
The HTTP headers with firefox: GET /pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8-stable/All/ecore-txt-0.9.9.042.tbz HTTP/1.1 Host: ftp5.de.freebsd.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101029 Firefox/3.6.12 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: UTF-8,* Keep-Alive: 15 Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: no-cache HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:06:36 GMT Server: Cherokee/1.0.1 (UNIX) Etag: 4c9492b8=19c2 Last-Modified: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:21:44 GMT Content-Length: 6594 The output of fetch -vv: scheme: [http] user: [] password: [] host: [ftp5.de.FreeBSD.org] port: [0] document: [/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8-stable/All/ecore-txt-0.9.9.042.tbz] ---> ftp5.de.FreeBSD.org:80 looking up ftp5.de.FreeBSD.org connecting to ftp5.de.FreeBSD.org:80 requesting http://ftp5.de.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8-stable/All/ecore-txt-0.9.9.042.tbz >>> GET /pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8-stable/All/ecore-txt-0.9.9.042.tbz >>> HTTP/1.1 >>> Host: ftp5.de.FreeBSD.org >>> User-Agent: fetch libfetch/2.0 >>> Connection: close >>> <<< HTTP/1.1 200 OK <<< Connection: close <<< Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:13:04 GMT <<< Server: Cherokee/1.0.1 (UNIX) <<< ETag: 4c9492b8=19c2 <<< Last-Modified: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:21:44 GMT <<< Content-Length: 6594 last modified: [2010-09-18 10:21:44] <<< content length: [6594] offset 0, length -1, size -1, clength 6594 remote size / mtime: 6594 / 1284805304 ecore-txt-0.9.9.042.tbz 0% of 6594 B 0 Bps The last line stays like this until I kill the process. I don't see anything that worries me in the headers, no idea what goes wrong. Regards -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? _______________________________________________ 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"