Re: Is fontforge/http.c used?

Yes, I saw that.

The thing is, that when it was hard to make other options work for users it
was a nice feature to provide a capability to do http/ftp/whatever.

But adding such a basic capability *within* your own program has the risks
of being both inadequate at some network interaction or another while also
being bug-ridden, because that's not what your program is all about!

(Look for the realloc in http.c - all of a sudden the caller is looking in
the wrong buffer (now free()d!!) upon return from HttpGetBuf() - is that
six-legged or eight-legged? - with threads, must be eight-legged)

Doing a call out to wget or another utility would be vastly preferable,
notwithstanding the sere utility landscape for users that is Windows.
Implementing the equivalent feature in an external utility, perhaps in
Python, would be better.

You say "We removed it previously as part of a larger pull request that
removed support for uploading to the Open Font Library."  So it was a
change solely to remove the "upload to OFL" thing, or was it intended to
jettison all this networking stuff?


On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 10:14 PM, Dave Crossland <[email protected]> wrote:

> Generate dialog has a upload to OFLB option.
>

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