Issue #5783 has been updated by Daniel Pittman.

Rhys Morgan wrote:
> I am working on something similar for a project I am working on using an 
> external download management tool. If anyone is interested in this I will 
> happily share.

We would absolutely take patches for this.  Ultimately, the hard part isn't the 
HTTP side - as Josh notes, we already have some good setup stuff for HTTP, and 
Ruby makes getting content that way pretty easy.

The hard part is actually integrating this into the file type, making decisions 
about how to deal with "has this changed", and that sort of thing.  So, 
absolutely, if you have answered some of those questions and want to contribute 
code, or notes on how to map the Puppet and HTTP semantics, that would be 
awesome.
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Feature #5783: support HTTP(S) URL as the file 'source'
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5783

Author: Daniel Pittman
Status: Accepted
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Daniel Pittman
Category: fileserving
Target version: 
Affected Puppet version: development
Keywords: 
Branch: 


Lots and lots of folks want to be able to do this:

    file { "/tmp/example.txt": source => 'http://example.com/example.txt' }

This would be good to support; obviously the metadata for the HTTP URI is much 
less available than via puppet file serving, but this would make a lot of 
people very, very happy.  


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