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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/download_backends.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/download_backends.mdwn index f794e814..c0bdc5b2 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/download_backends.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/download_backends.mdwn @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2013 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]]."]]"""]] +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta title="Use Internet Protocol Translators (ftpfs etc.) as Backends for Other Programs"]] @@ -19,8 +19,9 @@ 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 translator in the Hurd tree, as well as an [httpfs -translator on hurdextras](http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/#httpfs); however, +There is already an [[hurd/translator/ftpfs]] translator in the Hurd tree, as +well as an [[hurd/translator/httpfs]] on +[hurdextras](http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/); 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 |