freebsd-src/libexec/phttpget/phttpget.8
Kyle Evans 6703731d6e phttpget: move out of portsnap
Currently, WITHOUT_PORTSNAP forces WITHOUT_FREEBSD_UPDATE because the
latter relies on phttpget, which lives inside the portsnap build bits.

Remove the dependency between these two options by moving phttpget out into
^/libexec and building/installing it if either WITH_PORTSNAP or
WITH_FREEBSD_UPDATE.

Future work could remove the conditional if it's decided that users will use
it independently of either the current in-base consumers.

Reported by:	swills
Reviewed by:	jilles, emaste
MFC after:	3 days
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26255
2020-09-09 00:39:47 +00:00

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.Dd January 3, 2015
.Dt PHTTPGET 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm phttpget
.Nd retrieve multiple files via pipelined HTTP
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Ar server
.Ar file ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility is a minimalist pipelined HTTP client,
which is used to retrieve multiple
.Ar file Ns s
from one
.Ar server ,
and saves the downloaded files in the current working directory,
using the last portion of their download path as file names.
.Pp
By making several "in flight" HTTP requests,
it can dramatically increase performance when a large number of
small files need to be downloaded.
.Pp
The
.Xr freebsd-update 8
and
.Xr portsnap 8
tools use
.Nm
to download binary patch files.
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
.Bl -tag -width HTTP_PROXY_AUTH
.It Ev HTTP_PROXY
URL of the proxy to use for HTTP requests.
.It Ev HTTP_PROXY_AUTH
Authorization parameters for the HTTP proxy.
.It Ev HTTP_USER_AGENT
The User-Agent string to use for HTTP requests.
The default is
.Dq phttpget/0.1 .
.It Ev HTTP_TIMEOUT
Timeout for HTTP request in seconds.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr fetch 1 ,
.Xr freebsd-update 8 ,
.Xr portsnap 8
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
utility was written by
.An Colin Percival Aq Mt cperciva@FreeBSD.org
for use with
.Xr portsnap 8
and later with
.Xr freebsd-update 8 .
This manual page was written by
.An Xin LI Aq Mt delphij@FreeBSD.org .