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From: ric@diltd.demon.co.uk (Ric Harwood)
Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 19:46:06 GMT
Organization: Discovery International Ltd
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In demon.ip.support, Brian {Hamilton Kelly} <bhk@dsl.co.uk>, Brian
{Hamilton Kelly} wrote:
>In article <835294223.22071.1@diltd.demon.co.uk>
> ric@diltd.demon.co.uk "Ric Harwood" writes:
>> 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
^^^^
>It seems that you (like a lot of other people, including the
>*administrators*[1] of some http/ftp servers) don't appreciate that anything
>whose URL starts with "ftp:" *is* actually fetched by straightforward
>anonymous FTP (see the relevant RFCs, or read the code of a http client
>or proxy, if you don't believe me).
I *believe* that is what I said, more or less. The ftp text file can
be retreieved by batch ftp, but the second can not as it is served
by http.
>So the first of those could be fetched *under the present batchftp*
>merely by asking for:
>area51.upsu.plym.ac.uk:/pub/docs/hackers/hacker.definitions
>However, there *are* other methods by which http clients fetch files from
>servers, that use parts of the http protocol and *not* ordinary FTP. I
>can see the concept of a "batchhttp" server being very useful for these.
Indeed. I would like to have for example:
http://polar.wwb.noaa.gov/regional.waves/ATLT12Z1.gif and other
images retreievd by batch http so that I could retreive them more
locally.
>When I'm next browsing, I'll see if I can find a suitable URL as an
>example, and follow up to this thread.
Thanks.
Ric
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