On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 04:20:21PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Leslie Rhorer wrote: > > Reco wrote: > > > Don't depend on curl. Use good old socat combined with wget: > > That use of socat was clever. I didn't like the pkill socat though. > Wouldn't be good if there were another one running at the same time.
Yes, there's a room for an improvement. Presumably socat can write own pid to a user-specified pidfile, but I was lazy to check a manpage. > > Why? The -L option in curl did the trick. Is there some > > over-riding reason why I should use wget instead of curl? Curl > > windsup being simpler and faster in this case. > > Some time ago Reco and I were discussing this and Reco noted that curl > uses openssl while wget uses gnutls. That was Reco's reason for > prefering curl over wget at that time. > > https://lists.debian.org/20150409082351.GA24040@x101h And as the current discussion shows - those reasons are still valid. > That is a difference that causes problems and is probably related to > the problem you just experienced. This doesn't play into plain http > connections. But for https gnutls and openssl have different > behavior. They shouldn't. But they do. Therefore the suggestion > away from wget is really a suggestion away from gnutls and over to the > more time proven openssl used by curl. > > However recently in Unstable and therefore Stretch Testing curl > changed from openssl over to gnutls too. Jessie is already released > and this doesn't change Jessie or earlier releases. > > http://bugs.debian.org/342719 > > So in the future if that is maintained both curl and wget will have > the same gnutls behavior. > > Which might be different behavior from web > browsers as most web browsers use openssl. A minor nitpick here. Iceweasel/Firefox use libnss, not openssl. Chrome/Chromium use libnss. Anything based on webkit-gtk actually uses gnutls. I'm unsure about webkit-qt, though. About the only browser that actually uses openssl I can remember is w3m. Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150609104537.GA20901@x101h
