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Hi all, I''ve been looking into having Puppet deploy some larger files and I''m noticing that it ties up puppetmasters quite a bit and can often result in a timeout if the file is too large. Before I submit a feature request for a http method for file sources, I would throw it out to the group and see if anyone had any thoughts on it. Possible benefits of a HTTP source could be

.... How would I do this, assuming it''s possible? Thanks. [0] An aside: is there a nice way to test the existence of a file so I can have it fail with a message if the file doesn''t exist? Just for robustness''s sake. -- Robin <robin@kallisti.net.nz> JabberID: <eythian@jabber.kallisti.net.nz> http://www.kallisti.net.nz/blog ||| http://identi.ca/eythian PGP Key 0xA99CEB6D = 5957 6D23 8B16 EFAB FEF8 7175 14D3 6485 A99C EB6D