> I found some 1.02 sources at
> http://mvmpc9.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de/public/uka_ppp/SRC/WATTCP/ (also a
> version 1.01) and have mirrored this at ibiblio.
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/net/htget/
>
> htget.exe also has been moved there, but I think we ought to delete it
> if we don't have sources.

Maybe 1.05 is included in the watt-32 package.  I would check there.
>
> -jh
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste-family.net> 
> wrote:
>> Hi Blair!
>>
>> On Tuesday 07 April 2009 09:13, Blair Campbell wrote:
>>> HTGET was included in freedos 1.0 IIRC so you might find the source
>>> with the distribution somewhere
>>
>> Yeah, that what I thought as well. I already searched the FreeDOS 1.0 
>> packages list (as well as other directories on ibiblio), unfortunately I 
>> could find only the HTGET v1.05 binary file, without any sources with it, 
>> nor any information who has developped HTGET from v1.02 to v1.05 :-(
>>
>> I already prepared my fix on v1.02, but for obvious reasons it would be way 
>> better to apply it on the latest version instead... That way I would be able 
>> to release a v1.07 version...
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Mateusz
>>
>>
>>> 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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