aperezbios
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Hi folks. I wanted to share a new utility. It's working title/name is simply "HTTP Downloader" and it does what it says on the tin. It was designed to use minimal resources, and if you try to provide it with an HTTPS URL, it will tell you so. If you provide a URL which redirects to an SSL/TLS-enabled URL, it fails, and tells you this.
The purpose of this downloader is simple; It exists solely to "bootstrap" a machine with nothing but Internet connectivity, and an installed OS.
This utility was developed in CodeWarrior 5, using the PowerPlant framework, and will eventually be open sourced. Needless to say, it also works fine on PPC macs running System 7.5 through OS9.
For machines running System 7.0-7.1, Thread Manager is required. If you don't have this extension already, it can be downloaded from Apple.
A preview release of this utility can be downloaded here: HTTP-Downloader-0.99b.sit. It has received minimal testing thus far, and may or may not work properly/reliably with MacTCP (all testing was done with OpenTransport). Feedback is appreciated.
The stuffit archive is 135 kilobytes, and the uncompressed 68k binary is 270 kilobytes. When running, the application consumes 1,024 kilobytes of memory, so you're going to need a machine with that much free memory, after your System has loaded. Two megabytes is likely the lowest practical memory footprint.
The purpose of this downloader is simple; It exists solely to "bootstrap" a machine with nothing but Internet connectivity, and an installed OS.
This utility was developed in CodeWarrior 5, using the PowerPlant framework, and will eventually be open sourced. Needless to say, it also works fine on PPC macs running System 7.5 through OS9.
For machines running System 7.0-7.1, Thread Manager is required. If you don't have this extension already, it can be downloaded from Apple.
A preview release of this utility can be downloaded here: HTTP-Downloader-0.99b.sit. It has received minimal testing thus far, and may or may not work properly/reliably with MacTCP (all testing was done with OpenTransport). Feedback is appreciated.
The stuffit archive is 135 kilobytes, and the uncompressed 68k binary is 270 kilobytes. When running, the application consumes 1,024 kilobytes of memory, so you're going to need a machine with that much free memory, after your System has loaded. Two megabytes is likely the lowest practical memory footprint.
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