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From: dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk (Dominic Mitchell)
Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages
Date: 20 Jun 1996 22:09:42 GMT
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On Thu, 20 Jun 1996 18:10:20 GMT, Ric Harwood <ric@diltd.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Dom, {:^)
>
> In demon.ip.support, dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk (Dominic Mitchell),
> Dominic Mitchell wrote:
>
> >What exactly do you mean by batch http?
>
> As batch ftp. We send an email to ftp@demon.net containing the ftp
> URL of the file required. Multiple retrevals can be retreieved by
> putting each url on a new line. Then I can log on to ftp.demon as
> diltd rather than anonymously and ftp the file. A local example,
> would be that I could get:
> ftp://area51.upsu.plym.ac.uk/pub/docs/hackers/hacker.definitions
> by batch ftp, but not:
> http://area51.upsu.plym.ac.uk/~ric/files/flame.txt
>
> Obviously no big advantge for those two anyway, but for sites in the
> US the time saving is often large.
OK, that shouldn't be too hard to do in itself, but what would you
want done with inline images, for example? Just ignore them (easy)
or retrieve them as well (less easy, have to parse HTML).
> >If so, then there was a package recently announced (past month) on
> >comp.os.linux.announce which used the lynx browser to do just such a
> >thing.
>
> When I get my ppp working... {;^)
If you follow the slack-3.0.tar.gz file from ftp.demon.co.uk, you
shouldn't have too many problems, just takes a little while to get your
head round it all.
-Dom