enable http:// in auto_install file location

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/perl-install/http.pm b/perl-install/http.pm
index d04f90435..057764a27 100644
--- a/perl-install/http.pm
+++ b/perl-install/http.pm
@@ -9,12 +9,12 @@ my $sock;
 sub getFile {
     local($^W) = 0;
 
-    my ($host, $port, $path) = $ENV{URLPREFIX} =~ m,^http://([^/:]+)(?::(\d+))?(/\S*)?$,;
+    my ($url) = @_;
+    my ($host, $port, $path) = $url =~ m,^http://([^/:]+)(?::(\d+))?(/\S*)?$,;
     $host = network::resolv($host);
-    $path .= "/$_[0]";
 
     $sock->close if $sock;
-    $_[0] eq 'XXX' and return; #- force closing connection.
+    $url =~ m|/XXX$| and return; #- force closing connection.
     $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => $host,
 				  PeerPort => $port || 80,
 				  Proto    => 'tcp',
diff --git a/perl-install/install_any.pm b/perl-install/install_any.pm
index 82f33ef50..59dbafcfd 100644
--- a/perl-install/install_any.pm
+++ b/perl-install/install_any.pm
@@ -131,7 +131,10 @@ sub getFile {
     log::l("getFile $f:$method");
     my $rel = relGetFile($f);
     do {
-	if ($method =~ /crypto/i) {
+	if ($f =~ m|^http://|) {
+	    require http;
+	    http::getFile($f);
+	} elsif ($method =~ /crypto/i) {
 	    require crypto;
 	    crypto::getFile($f);
 	} elsif ($::o->{method} eq "ftp") {
@@ -139,7 +142,7 @@ sub getFile {
 	    ftp::getFile($rel);
 	} elsif ($::o->{method} eq "http") {
 	    require http;
-	    http::getFile($rel);
+	    http::getFile("$ENV{URLPREFIX}/$rel");
 	} else {
 	    #- try to open the file, but examine if it is present in the repository, this allow
 	    #- handling changing a media when some of the file on the first CD has been copied