From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 17 12:52:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C96B237B400 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:52:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (oe72.law12.hotmail.com [64.4.18.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D27743E58 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:52:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from default013subscriptions@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:52:35 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [216.228.133.13] From: "default" To: "FreeBSD-Questions" Subject: need webserver advice regarding wget Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:52:28 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Jul 2002 19:52:35.0289 (UTC) FILETIME=[7F0BDC90:01C22DCB] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I run some FreeBSD webservers and recently a client of mine has asked that I install wget. I know that this is a fairly common application, but I am not very familiar with it. I just wanted to ask you guy's advice on whether or not there are any security concerns at all that may come with this, or any other reason that one might not want this on a shared webserver? Thanks, Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message