RE: [RDJ] Curl support in Rules du Jour version 1.17-pre1 (as an alternative to wget)

[Chris Santerre <cs...@MerchantsOverseas.com>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Thielen [mailto:cmt-spamassassin@someone.dhs.org]
>Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 1:34 AM
>To: SpamAssassin-users@incubator.apache.org
>Subject: [RDJ] Curl support in Rules du Jour version 1.17-pre1 (as an
>alternative to wget)
>
>
>I've hacked in curl support (as opposed to wget) into Rules du Jour.
>I'm not going to have time to test it much in the next few days.  If
>anyone wants to test it, grab it from
>http://sandgnat.com/rdj/rules_du_jour.1.17-pre1
>
>curl supports gzip compression and If-Modified-Since which 
>wget does not
>support.  If RDJ finds curl, it will be used by default.  If not found,
>wget will be used as the fallback.
>
>Please contact me with problems or comments.
>

This is damn cool. Part of me wonders if this could become part of SA
officially. Could be a backend to even update SA code? Just a thought.

--Chris (The other Chris)

RE: [RDJ] Curl support in Rules du Jour version 1.17-pre1 (as an alternative to wget)

[Chris Thielen <cm...@someone.dhs.org>]

On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 11:59 -0600, Jorge Valdes wrote:

> 
> Chirs (Thielen),
> 
> I was just looking at the script and have the following comments:
> 
> + I had an older version of curl installed on my system (and the compress 
> option was not available, therefore, this failed. I upgraded to the latest 
> release and things worked as expected.

Noted, thanks.  There's a chance that I can detect the curl revision and
automatically enable --compressed on the fly.

> + When displaying errors in debug mode, there were references to 
> ${TMPDIR}/wget.log even though the script tried to use curl, I modified it 
> to display ${HTTP_ERROR} instead which is what the functions set to display 
> the error.

Thanks!


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RE: [RDJ] Curl support in Rules du Jour version 1.17-pre1 (as an alternative to wget)

[Jorge Valdes <jv...@intercom.com.sv>]

At 08:17 AM 23/07/2004, Chris Santerre wrote:


> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Chris Thielen [mailto:cmt-spamassassin@someone.dhs.org]
> >Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 1:34 AM
> >To: SpamAssassin-users@incubator.apache.org
> >Subject: [RDJ] Curl support in Rules du Jour version 1.17-pre1 (as an
> >alternative to wget)
> >
> >
> >I've hacked in curl support (as opposed to wget) into Rules du Jour.
> >I'm not going to have time to test it much in the next few days.  If
> >anyone wants to test it, grab it from
> >http://sandgnat.com/rdj/rules_du_jour.1.17-pre1
> >
> >curl supports gzip compression and If-Modified-Since which
> >wget does not
> >support.  If RDJ finds curl, it will be used by default.  If not found,
> >wget will be used as the fallback.
> >
> >Please contact me with problems or comments.
> >
>
>This is damn cool. Part of me wonders if this could become part of SA
>officially. Could be a backend to even update SA code? Just a thought.
>
>--Chris (The other Chris)

Chirs (Thielen),

I was just looking at the script and have the following comments:

+ I had an older version of curl installed on my system (and the compress 
option was not available, therefore, this failed. I upgraded to the latest 
release and things worked as expected.

+ When displaying errors in debug mode, there were references to 
${TMPDIR}/wget.log even though the script tried to use curl, I modified it 
to display ${HTTP_ERROR} instead which is what the functions set to display 
the error.



--
Jorge Valdes
IT Manager
Intercom El Salvador
jvaldes@intercom.com.sv