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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/download_backends.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/download_backends.mdwn index 749597a6..f794e814 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/download_backends.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/download_backends.mdwn @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ 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 an [httpfs +There is already an ftpfs translator in the Hurd tree, as well as an [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 @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ 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, +This task requires some design skills and some knowledge of internet protocols, to create a suitable interface. Translator programming knowledge will have to be obtained while implementing it. |