From: Adam Kropelin <akropel1@rochester.rr.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 22:42:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Get commits from remote repositories by HTTP
Message-ID: <011201c542d5$940bb670$03c8a8c0@kroptech.com>
In-Reply-To: <12c511ca050416152452a4c620@mail.gmail.com>

Tony Luck wrote:
> Otherwise this looks really nice.  I was going to script something
> similar using "wget" ... but that would have made zillions of seperate
> connections.  Not so kind to the server.

How about building a file list and doing a batch download via 'wget -i 
/tmp/foo'? A quick test (on my ancient wget-1.7) indicates that it reuses 
connectionss when successive URLs point to the same server.

Writing yet another http client does seem a bit pointless, what with wget 
and curl available. The real win lies in creating the smarts to get the 
minimum number of files.

--Adam