Re: Grab with HTTP

Phillip Lord <[email protected]> 18 Sep 2002 18:29:54 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.redhat.rpm.grab
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Kurtzer <[email protected]> writes:

  Greg> Nope. I have tried to build this functionality several times,
  Greg> but the various web servers don't always give the same
  Greg> info. For exmple when doing a list in a directory (to get the
  Greg> contents), some of them may truncate the name, or do other
  Greg> weirdness.

  Greg> If anyone wants to work on this, go ahead (and good luck). 8^)

  Greg> Greg

  Greg> On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 02:22:22PM +0100, Phillip Lord wrote:
  >> 
  >> 
  >> A very quick question about grab. I'm just wondering whether it
  >> is possible to get grab to work with http delivered rpm archives,
  >> rather than ftp ones?
  >> 

Ah. Thought that there might be a good reason. What a pity!

Cheers

Phil