Re: HTTP background tool

1997-12-05 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Eloy A. Paris writes: > > Do not reinvent the wheel. The Wget package will do what you want, and > more. > Tried it, it works great. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: HTTP background tool

1997-12-05 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Dale Martin writes: > > I use "snarf". It can do command line grabs from http, finger, ftp, and > gopher. Seems to work reasonably well, and it's super simple to use. > > I'm not sure if it's still available or not - I don't see it in my mirror. > Let me know if it's not - I'll package it

Re: HTTP background tool

1997-12-05 Thread Dale Martin
"Orn E. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically > connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document > in the background? > > Some sites are very slow, and they only provide HTTP access to the > informatio

Re: HTTP background tool

1997-12-05 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically : >connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document : >in the background? : perl certainly provides all you need. You could easily specify a URL : and have a perl prog

Re: HTTP background tool

1997-12-05 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically : >connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document : >in the background? : perl certainly provides all you need. You could easily specify a URL : and have a perl prog

RE: HTTP background tool

1997-12-05 Thread Ralph Winslow
On 05-Dec-97 Orn E. Hansen wrote: > >Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically >connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document >in the background? perl certainly provides all you need. You could easily specify a URL and have a perl program down

Re: HTTP background tool

1997-12-05 Thread Joey Hess
Orn E. Hansen wrote: > I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically > connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document > in the background? > > Some sites are very slow, and they only provide HTTP access to the > information they provide... while it would

HTTP background tool

1997-12-05 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document in the background? Some sites are very slow, and they only provide HTTP access to the information they provide... while it would be nice to be able to downl