--- getbinpkg.py.beforeme	2005-09-27 18:54:17.000000000 -0300
+++ getbinpkg.py	2005-09-27 18:56:41.000000000 -0300
@@ -111,11 +111,27 @@
 			  ),
 		}
 
+	port = None
+	proxy_host = os.environ.get("http_proxy")
+	if proxy_host:
+		# Do not send user/password here
+		address = baseurl
+		#address = protocol + "://" + host + "/" + address
+		hostport = string.split(proxy_host, ":")
+		if len(hostport) > 2:
+			raise ValueError, "Unable to interpret proxy:port from http_proxy."
+		elif len(hostport) == 2:
+			host = hostport[0]
+			port = hostport[1]
+		elif len(hostport) == 1:
+			host = hostport[0]
+		del hostport, proxy_host
+		
 	if not conn:
 		if protocol == "https":
-			conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection(host)
+			conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection(host, port)
 		elif protocol == "http":
-			conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(host)
+			conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(host, port)
 		elif protocol == "ftp":
 			passive = 1
 			if(host[-1] == "*"):
@@ -181,7 +197,7 @@
 		return None,int(str(e)[:4]),str(e)
 	
 
-def make_http_request(conn, address, params={}, headers={}, dest=None):
+def make_http_request(conn, address, params={}, headers={}, dest=None, method="GET"):
 	"""(conn,address,params,headers) --- uses the conn object to request
 	the data from address, performing Location forwarding and using the
 	optional params and headers."""
@@ -192,7 +208,7 @@
 		try:
 			if (rc != 0):
 				conn,ignore,ignore,ignore,ignore = create_conn(address)
-			conn.request("GET", address, params, headers)
+			conn.request(method, address, params, headers)
 		except SystemExit, e:
 			raise
 		except Exception, e:
@@ -224,6 +240,8 @@
 		dest.write(response.read())
 		return "",0,""
 
+	if method != "GET":
+		return response,0,""
 	return response.read(),0,""
 
 
@@ -303,7 +321,7 @@
 
 	return listing
 
-def file_get_metadata(baseurl,conn=None, chunk_size=3000):
+def file_get_metadata(baseurl,conn=None, chunk_size=3000, file_size=-1):
 	"""(baseurl[,connection]) -- Takes a base url to connect to and read from.
 	URL should be in the for <proto>://<site>[:port]<path>
 	Connection is used for persistent connection instances."""
@@ -316,8 +334,19 @@
 	conn,protocol,address,params,headers = create_conn(baseurl, conn)
 
 	if protocol in ["http","https"]:
-		headers["Range"] = "bytes=-"+str(chunk_size)
-		data,rc,msg = make_http_request(conn, address, params, headers)
+		if file_size==-1:
+			data,rc,msg = make_http_request(conn, address, params, headers, method="HEAD")
+			if data:
+				file_size = int(data.getheader("content-length"))
+				del data
+		# If it's still -1, we were unable to get file_size, fallback to old method
+		if file_size==-1:
+			headers["Range"] = "bytes=-"+str(chunk_size)
+			data,rc,msg = make_http_request(conn, address, params, headers)
+		else:
+			headers["Range"] = "bytes="+str(file_size-chunk_size)+"-"
+			data,rc,msg = make_http_request(conn, address, params, headers)
+			
 	elif protocol in ["ftp"]:
 		data,rc,msg = make_ftp_request(conn, address, -chunk_size)
 	else:
@@ -326,7 +355,7 @@
 	if data:
 		xpaksize = xpak.decodeint(data[-8:-4])
 		if (xpaksize+8) > chunk_size:
-			myid = file_get_metadata(baseurl, conn, (xpaksize+8))
+			myid = file_get_metadata(baseurl, conn, (xpaksize+8), file_size)
 			if not keepconnection:
 				conn.close()
 			return myid