simple patch for portsnap to use wget

[Lars Engels]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:22:09AM +0200, Alexander Yerenkow wrote:
> Do you aware that if wget tries download from https, and there is
> self-signed certificate, then it fails, and ask for --no-check-certificate
> option?
> How do your patch deal in that case?
> 
> 2012/11/27 Luca Ferrari <fluca1978 at infinito.it>
> 
> > Hi all,
> > I was in trouble for a while because I was using FreeBSD behind an
> > http proxy (a palo alto for what it means) and the portsnap command
> > was unable to handle updates reporting always "file does not exist".
> > After digging I found that the problem was in the phttpget command
> > used internally from portsnap: phttpget is not able to handle an
> > http_proxy variable in the form of http://user:password@proxy:port
> > since the first colon is understood as a port separator and therefore
> > phttpget tries to connect to the host "user" on port
> > "password at proxy:port". Since I did not found much documentation about
> > how to solve the problem, and nobody on the forum was able to point me
> > in any direction (see
> > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=28849) I wrote a simple
> > patch to modify portsnap to use wget instead of phttpget.
> > Of course, this means you have to install wget first, and also the
> > laminating of the files to download has slightly changed within
> > portsnap, but I'm using it from several days and updates now and it
> > seems to work well.
> > Now the question is: should this patch, or better the idea of using
> > wget or another alike substitute to phttpget, be integrated into the
> > system?
> > I've tested it on FreeBSD-9-STABLE.
> >

This should really be fixed in portsnap / phttpget itself. (cpervica
CC'ed).
wget is not part of the base system.
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