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To make git-annex faster when it's dealing with a lot of urls,
I decided to make it use the http-conduit library for all url access by
default. That way, http pipelining will speed up repeated requests to the
same web servers. This is kind of a follow-up to the recent elimination of
rsync.
Some users rely on some annex.web-options or a .netrc file to configure
how git-annex downloads urls. To keep that supported, when
annex.web-options is set, git-annex will use curl.
To use a .netrc file, curl needs an option, so you would configure:
git config annex.web-options --netrc
I get the feeling that nobody has implemented resuming interrupted
downloads of files using http-conduit before, because it was unexpectedly
kind of hard and http-types lacks support for some of the necessary
range-related HTTP stuff.
Today's work was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
----
Stewart V. Wright [announced recastex](http://git-annex.branchable.com/tips/Announcing_recastex_-___40__re__41__podcast__from_your_annex/),
a program that publishes podcasts and other files from by git-annex to your
phone.