Document the authentication callback interface.
Update RFC references (should have done that ages ago...)

Apply 'const' liberally.

Fix some other minor glitches.

Grammar police: "its", not "it's", is the possessive form of "it".

Use high port range by default, and replace the 'h' option with an 'l' option
that forces the ftp code to use the low (default) port range instead.

Support lower-case versions of the proxy environment variables.

PR: bin/25494

mdoc(7) police: fixed broken references.

Prepare for mdoc(7)NG.

The user name for anonymous ftp is now "anonymous".
Remove the period after the last man page reference.
Add a reference to RFC1635, and sort the RFC references by number.

Document FTP_LOGIN.

Somewhere along the line, I misunderstood the whole FTP_PASSIVE_MODE debate
and had libfetch selecting passive mode even when FTP_PASSIVE_MODE was not
set at all, which is really quite surprising unl

Somewhere along the line, I misunderstood the whole FTP_PASSIVE_MODE debate
and had libfetch selecting passive mode even when FTP_PASSIVE_MODE was not
set at all, which is really quite surprising unless you know about it. So
change it to the agreed default behaviour of selecting passive mode if
FTP_PASSIVE_MODE is set, but not "no".

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Remove some obsolete comments.

log

Spell the des's name correctly.

Use Fx macro wherever possible.

Document FTP_PASSIVE_MODE and FTP_PASSWORD.

PR: docs/20626
Submitted by: nik

Document recent changes in URL parsing and proxy handling

Make the ENVIRONMENT section more legible, and mention that HTTP_AUTH is
colon-separated.

Document the FTP_PROXY and HTTP_PROXY variables better.

Document the proxy support better.

Introduce fetchXGet*(), which combine the functionalities of fetchGet*() and
fetchStat*(). In most cases, either fetchGet*() or fetchXGet*() is a wrapper
around the other; in all cases, calling fetc

Introduce fetchXGet*(), which combine the functionalities of fetchGet*() and
fetchStat*(). In most cases, either fetchGet*() or fetchXGet*() is a wrapper
around the other; in all cases, calling fetchGet*() is identical to calling
fetchXGet*() with the second argument set to NULL.

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Fully document the HTTP authorization feature.
Update the BUGS section to reflect the HTTP rewrite.

Document that basic authorization now kinda works.

Add (and document) fetchMakeURL()

Dump com_err, it's a stinking crock of shit.

Document struct url.
Document the default values for fetchStat*().