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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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To: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=
    (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su>
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Subject: Does anybody knows a way to get file via HTTP
    non-interactively?
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KOI8-R writes:
>It is actual, because more and more sites places archives available by
>HTTP only.
>All browsers I know can't work in background... :-(

Get a file:

$ echo "GET /<filename>" | socket <host> <port> > out


Reading a directory:

$ echo GET /dir/ | socket host port | \
	perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if /\sNAME="([^"]+)"/'


Wolfram