svn commit: r404467 - in head/sysutils: . phttpget phttpget/files

[Lars Engels]

On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 07:45:44PM +0000, Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh wrote:
> Author: sunpoet
> Date: Fri Dec 25 19:45:44 2015
> New Revision: 404467
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/404467
> 
> Log:
>   - Add phttpget 0.2
>   
>   `phttpget' is a Pipelined HTTP GET utility.
>   
>   This is different from "normal" HTTP in that it allows the HTTP
>   client to have several HTTP requests "in flight" at once, and can
>   dramatically increase performance when a large number of small files
>   need to be downloaded. (This was the case with portsnap, where
>   downloading 300 files of 200 bytes each is not unusual).
>   
>   Note that phttpget is currently extremely minimalist.
>   
>   Please see the website listed below, for a full feature list.
>   
>   WWW: http://www.daemonology.net/phttpget/

What was the reason to create a port of this? phttpget(8) is part of
base as /usr/libexec/phttpget.
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