[plug] mirroring and updating a remote http directory

[Ben Jensz]

Craig Ringer wrote:

>
>Given that it's an antivirus company, I'd say they'll be doing
>everything they can to get clients to ALWAYS see the very latest
>version.
>
>If they wanted to be unhelpful, given they're an AV vendor I expect
>they'd be doing User-Agent checks or other irritations to confine access
>to their approved clients. Merely preventing caching seems more likely
>to just increase load on their servers (lots of people would probably
>say "oh, well, I'll download them all anyway) without really preventing
>anything.
>
>  
>
That directory contains the manual update definitions, not the files 
that the autodownload feature in Vet actually downloads.

It does seems a tad strange that they'd munt it like that.. by default 
it'd be turned on, someone must've explicitly turned it off for one 
reason or another.


/ Ben