From 49554f47f60568c3df942f274ab45d92f451fbcc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Hooper <charles.hooper@dotcloud.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:50:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add Download method for native Go downloading (to replace
 curl). Catch 404s. Ref: #49, #50

---
 future/future.go | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/future/future.go b/future/future.go
index 208484df1a..a3dd9f7efa 100644
--- a/future/future.go
+++ b/future/future.go
@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@ package future
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"crypto/sha256"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"math/rand"
+	"net/http"
 	"os/exec"
 	"time"
 )
@@ -103,3 +105,21 @@ func Curl(url string, stderr io.Writer) (io.Reader, error) {
 	}
 	return output, nil
 }
+
+// Request a given URL and return an io.Reader
+func Download(url string, stderr io.Writer) (io.Reader, error) {
+	var resp *http.Response
+	var archive io.ReadCloser = nil
+	var err error = nil
+
+	fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "Download start\n") // FIXME: Replace with progress bar
+	if resp, err = http.Get(url); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if resp.StatusCode >= 400 {
+		return nil, errors.New("Got HTTP status code >= 400: " + resp.Status)
+	}
+	archive = resp.Body
+	fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "Download end\n") // FIXME: Replace with progress bar
+	return archive, nil
+}