Re: using http instead of ftp for txfr?

I have been thinking the same thing for quite some time now. Unfortunatly I
have been unable to find a suitable perl library/module for doing such a task
nicely. I have been looking into Net/HTTP.pm but while it seems to be good for
viewing text HTML, using it to download binary files has given me problems. I
will do some more checking and see if I can build the functionality in to
GRAB.

Thanks for the comments!

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 10:44:34PM -0800, Ami Fischman wrote:
> Hi there,
> I've been using grab for a couple of months now, and I like it a lot.  My
> one outstanding wish for it, though, is to handle http transfers instead of
> ftp.  Specifically, the distro.ibiblio.org archives seem to be getting more
> and more clogged w/ ftp users, while still providing very nice throughput
> for me on http.  I vote for a feature to allow servers to be specified using
> http in addition to ftp (obviously, this would only work with certainly
> formatted html presentation of directories, but I think it's fairly standard
> by now; I'd just be happy w/ grab understanding the apache presentation of
> directories).
> 
> I'm not subscribed to this list, so please CC me on any replies.
> 
> Thanks,
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