Changes in 2.4 - August 27 1997

Changes:

• Added progress meter. It appears when downloading > BUFFER SIZE and mute is not selected. I found out that when downloading large files from really really slow sites, it is desirable to know the status of the download. Do note that some downloads are done unawaring of the size, which makes the progress meter less thrilling ;) If the output is sent to a tty, the progress meter is shut off.
• Made it grok user+passwd for HTTP fetches. The trick is to base64 encode the user+passwd and send an extra header line. Read chapter 11.1 in RFC2068 for details. I added it to be used just like the ftp one.

Bugfixes:

• Increased buffer size used for reading.
• Added length checks in the user+passwd parsing.

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