Re: [PLUG] raw GET requests

["Alan D. Salewski" <salewski@att.net>]

On 2019-01-29 16:03:45, JP Vossen spake thus:
[...] 
> Note that Bash stuff requires that Bash be compiled with support for net
> redirection.  Some Bash, on Debian & Ubuntu in particular, was not.  It
> might be now, I haven't looked in a long time.

I can confirm that recent versions on Debian do compile-in support for net
redirections. I just tested with the 'bash' package version 5.0-2:
    
    $ bash --version | head -n 1
    GNU bash, version 5.0.2(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)


A little digging with 'get-get changelog bash' shows that it was one of the
packaged versions of bash 4.0 in which the build was changed to compile in
support. It's not clear to me whether it was 4.0-4 or 4.0-5, though:

<quote>
    bash (4.0-5) unstable; urgency=low
    ...
      * Don't configure with --disable-net-redirections.
    ... 
     -- Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>  Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:55:54 +0200
    
    bash (4.0-4) unstable; urgency=low
    ...
      * Enable net redirections, now that bash isn't the default shell
        anymore.
    ...
     -- Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>  Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:09:36 +0200
</quote>

 
> Later,
> JP
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> JP Vossen, CISSP | http://www.jpsdomain.org/ | http://bashcookbook.com/


Take care,
-Al


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