HTTP_PROXY
URL of the proxy to use for HTTP requests.
phttpget8
Retrieve multiple files via pipelined http
Usage
phttpget server
file ...
Overview
The phttpget utility is a minimalist pipelined HTTP client, which is used to retrieve multiple files from one server, and saves the downloaded files in the current working directory, using the last portion of their download path as file names.
By making several "in flight" HTTP requests, it can dramatically increase performance when a large number of small files need to be downloaded.
The freebsd-update(8) tool uses phttpget to download binary patch files.
Environment
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HTTP_PROXY_AUTH -
Authorization parameters for the HTTP proxy.
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HTTP_USER_AGENT -
The User-Agent string to use for HTTP requests. The default is “phttpget/0.1”.
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HTTP_TIMEOUT -
Timeout for HTTP request in seconds.
Releases
28 releases since FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE; the text changed 15 times.