[PATCH] option to prefer HTTP for downloads

[Yann E. MORIN]

Matthias,

On Friday 11 April 2008 16:33:38 Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> exactly, it got stuck and nothing happened. later i switched on traces 
> and figured out where it hangs:
> --13:35:56--
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.23.tar.bz2
>           => `linux-2.6.23.tar.bz2'
> Resolving ftp.kernel.org... 204.152.191.37, 204.152.191.5
> Connecting to ftp.kernel.org|204.152.191.37|:21... connected.
> Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
> ==> SYST ...

How long did you wait? wget has a 900s read-timeout, and that should have been
triggered. I just commited a change to reduce the timeouts to 120s, which ought
to be more than enough for any decent network theses days.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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