From 8bc2bd57ad4d9ea0fdd753e56616fd8f74cb78a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Claudio Sacerdoti Coen <claudio.sacerdoticoen@unibo.it>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:14:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Other patches to this file. It must be rewritten from scratch
 sooner or later.

---
 helm/interface/http_getter/http_getter.pl | 31 +++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/helm/interface/http_getter/http_getter.pl b/helm/interface/http_getter/http_getter.pl
index 650a16a3b..cfe9a79ad 100755
--- a/helm/interface/http_getter/http_getter.pl
+++ b/helm/interface/http_getter/http_getter.pl
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ while (my $c = $d->accept) {
                $response = $ua->request($request, \&callback);
                
                print "Storing file\n";
-               open(FD, $filename);
+               mkdirs($filename);
+               open(FD, ">".$filename);
                print FD $cont;
                close(FD);
 
@@ -95,7 +96,8 @@ while (my $c = $d->accept) {
                $response = $ua->request($request, \&callback);
                
                print "Storing file for the annotation\n";
-               open(FD, $filename);
+               mkdirs($filename);
+               open(FD, ">".$filename);
                print FD $cont;
                close(FD);
             }
@@ -117,7 +119,8 @@ while (my $c = $d->accept) {
                   $response = $ua->request($request, \&callback);
                
                   print "Storing file for the file to annotate\n";
-                  open(FD, $filename_target);
+                  mkdirs($filename_target);
+                  open(FD, ">".$filename_target);
                   print FD $cont;
                   close(FD);
                }
@@ -176,7 +179,8 @@ EOT
                $response = $ua->request($request, \&callback);
                
                print "Storing file for the types\n";
-               open(FD, $filename);
+               mkdirs($filename);
+               open(FD, ">".$filename);
                print FD $cont;
                close(FD);
             }
@@ -199,7 +203,8 @@ EOT
                   $response = $ua->request($request, \&callback);
                
                   print "Storing file for the file to type\n";
-                  open(FD, $filename_target);
+                  mkdirs($filename_target);
+                  open(FD, ">".$filename_target);
                   print FD $cont;
                   close(FD);
                }
@@ -276,3 +281,19 @@ sub callback
  my ($data) = @_;
  $cont .= $data;
 }
+
+# Does not raise errors if could not create dirs/files
+
+# Too much powerful: creates even /home, /home/users/, ...
+sub mkdirs
+{
+ my ($pathname) = @_;
+ my @dirs = split /\//,$pathname;
+ my $tmp;
+ foreach $dir (@dirs) {
+  $tmp = ((defined($tmp)) ?  $tmp = $tmp."\/".$dir : "");
+  print $tmp."\n";
+  mkdir($tmp,0777);
+ }
+ rmdir($tmp);
+}
-- 
2.39.2