Re: using http instead of ftp for txfr?

Perfect timing! I just got an E-mail back from Gisle Aas who is the maintainer
of LWP (lowlevel WWW Protocol) perl libs, and he gave me some advice on using
the getstore() functions, which I did not know before. It will do exactly what
I need. The only problem is that the libWWW perl mods are not part of a
"normal" Linux distribution. I will have to either bundle the functions into
GRAB, create an RPM for libWWW, or just require the source to be installed.

In any case I will start working on this shortly...

Greg

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 10:17:53AM -0800, Ami Fischman wrote:
> Greg Kurtzer <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Hmm.  Could using the lftp client help here?  For instance, I can run:
> lftp http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributiredhat/7.2/
> followed by:
> ls -al
> 
> and get back:
> drwxr-xr-x            -  2001-11-27 17:01  ..
> drwxr-xr-x            -  2001-10-03 18:37  de
> drwxr-xr-x            -  2001-10-03 18:37  emea
> drwxr-xr-x            -  2001-10-03 18:37  en
> drwxr-xr-x            -  2001-10-03 18:37  es
> drwxr-xr-x            -  2001-10-03 18:37  fr
> drwxr-xr-x            -  2001-10-03 18:37  it
> drwxr-xr-x            -  2001-10-03 19:01  ja
> 
> So, lftp is already doing the parsing of the apache listing and presenting
> the data as if it were an ftp server.
> 
> -- 
>   Ami Fischman
>   [email protected]

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