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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by st...@apache.org on 2002/01/02 06:16:05 UTC
cvs commit: jakarta-ant/docs/manual/CoreTasks get.html
stevel 02/01/01 21:16:04
Modified: docs/manual/CoreTasks get.html
Log:
username and password doced and exampled; some tab to space corrections.
Revision Changes Path
1.4 +41 -12 jakarta-ant/docs/manual/CoreTasks/get.html
Index: get.html
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RCS file: /home/cvs/jakarta-ant/docs/manual/CoreTasks/get.html,v
retrieving revision 1.3
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.3 -r1.4
--- get.html 30 Oct 2001 10:05:34 -0000 1.3
+++ get.html 2 Jan 2002 05:16:04 -0000 1.4
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
-<title>Apache Ant User Manual</title>
+<title>Get</title>
</head>
<body>
@@ -10,16 +10,27 @@
<h2><a name="get">Get</a></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>Gets a file from a URL. When the verbose option is "on", this task
-displays a '.' for every 100 Kb retrieved.</p>
+displays a '.' for every 100 Kb retrieved. Any URL schema supported by
+the runtime is valid here, including http:, ftp:, and the classpath;
+https: is only valid if the appropriate support is added to the pre-1.4 Java
+runtimes.
+
+</p>
<p>This task should be preferred above the <a href="cvs.html">CVS task</a> when
-doing automated builds. CVS is significantly slower than loading a compressed
-archive with http/ftp.</p>
+fetching remote content. CVS is significantly slower than loading a compressed
+archive compared to http/ftp.</p>
The <i>usetimestamp</i> option enables you to control downloads so that the remote file is
only fetched if newer than the local copy. If there is no local copy, the download always takes
place. When a file is downloaded, the timestamp of the downloaded file is set to the remote timestamp,
if the JVM is Java1.2 or later.
NB: This timestamp facility only works on downloads using the HTTP protocol.
+<p>
+A username and password can be specified, in which case basic 'slightly encoded
+plain text' authentication is used. This is only a secure authentication
+mechanism over an HTTPS link.
+</p>
+
<h3>Parameters</h3>
<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
@@ -40,34 +51,52 @@
<tr>
<td valign="top">verbose</td>
<td valign="top">show verbose progress information ("on"/"off").</td>
- <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
+ <td align="center" valign="top">No; default "false"</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">ignoreerrors</td>
<td valign="top">Log errors but don't treat as fatal.</td>
- <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
+ <td align="center" valign="top">No; default "false"</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">usetimestamp</td>
- <td valign="top">conditionally download a file based on the timestamp of the local copy.
- HTTP only</td>
- <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
+ <td valign="top">conditionally download a file based on the timestamp of the
+ local copy. HTTP only</td>
+ <td align="center" valign="top">No; default "false"</td>
</tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top">username</td>
+ <td valign="top">username for 'BASIC' http authentication</td>
+ <td align="center" valign="top">if password is set</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top">password</td>
+ <td valign="top">password: required </td>
+ <td align="center" valign="top">if username is set</td>
+ </tr>
+
</table>
<h3>Examples</h3>
<pre> <get src="http://jakarta.apache.org/" dest="help/index.html"/></pre>
<p>Gets the index page of http://jakarta.apache.org/, and stores it in the file <code>help/index.html</code>.</p>
<pre> <get src="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/tomcat/nightly/ant.zip"
- dest="optional.jar"
- verbose="true"
- usetimestamp="true"/></pre>
+ dest="optional.jar"
+ verbose="true"
+ usetimestamp="true"/></pre>
<p>
Gets the nightly ant build from the tomcat distribution, if the local copy
is missing or out of date. Uses the verbose option
for progress information.
</p>
+<pre> <get src="https://insecure-bank.org/statement/user=1214"
+ dest="statement.html"
+ username="1214";
+ password="secret" /></pre>
+<p>
+Fetches some file from a server with access control. Because https is being used the
+fact that basic auth sends passwords in plaintext is moot.
<hr>
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