Download backends GSoC task: More appropriate file name

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-[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
-
-[[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable
-id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
-Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license
-is included in the section entitled
-[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
-
-[[meta title="Use Internet Protocol Translators (ftpfs etc.) as Backends for Other Programs"]]
-
-The Hurd design faciliates splitting up large applications into independent,
-generic components, which can be easily combined in different contexts, by
-moving common functionality into separate Hurd servers (translators),
-accessible trough filesystem interfaces and/or specialized RPC interfaces.
-
-Download protocols like FTP, HTTP, BitTorrent etc. are very good candidates for
-this kind of modularization: a program could simply use the download
-functionality by accessing FTP, HTTP etc. translators.
-
-There is already an ftpfs traslator in the Hurd tree, as well as a [httpfs
-translator on hurdextras](http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/#httpfs); however,
-these are only suitable for very simple use cases: they just provide the actual
-file contents downloaded from the URL, but no additional status information
-that are necessary for interactive use. (Progress indication, error codes, HTTP
-redirects etc.)
-
-A new interface providing all this additional information (either as an
-extension to the existing translators, or as distinct translators) is required
-to make such translators usable as backends for programs like apt-get for
-example.
-
-The goal of this project is to design a suitable interface, implement it for at
-least one download protocol, and adapt apt-get (or some other program) to use
-this as a backend.
-
-This task requires some design skills and some knowlegde of internet protocols,
-to create a suitable interface. Translator programming knowledge will have to
-be obtained while implementing it.
-
-It is not an easy task, but it shouldn't pose any really hard problems either.
-
-Possible mentors: Olaf Buddenhagen (antrik)
-
-Exercise: Make some improvement to one of the existing download translators --
-httpfs in particular is known to be buggy.