Download URL for blobwars.

[Roman Neuhauser]

# lorenl at alzatex.com / 2005-06-14 23:26:37 -0700:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:24:17PM -0700, Loren M. Lang wrote:
> > I am almost finished in making a port for the game blobwars, but I am
> > having trouble in getting fetch to work.  The download url provided on
> > the site is:
> > 
> > http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/download.php?file=blobwars-1.04-1.tar.gz&type=zip
> > 
> > so I decided to try setting MASTER_SITES to
> > 
> > http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/download.php?type=zip&file= and set
> > 
> > PORTNAME and DISTVERSION as appropriate.  This caused fetch to grab the
> > file successfully, but it saved it as
> > 
> > download.php?type=zip&file=blobwars-1.04-1.tar.gz
> > 
> > instead of blobwars-1.04-1.tar.gz so extract then fails.  Though when I
> > click on the link in konqueror, it brings up a save as dialog with the
> > correct filename.  What do I need to do to get fetch to save it as
> > appropriate?
> 
> I think what's happening here is that libfetch doesn't understand the
> Content-disposition header that the site is sending out and so is saving
> the file with the wrong name.  The fix would be to add support for the
> content-disposition header to libfetch or use a suitable replacement
> that understands the header.  The only other alternative I can see it to
> host the file somewhere else or hack the ports makefile to force the
> filename on it.

    FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS=	-o ${DISTFILES}

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