From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Sep 25 15:38:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from atlas.bit.net.au (atlas.bit.net.au [203.18.94.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F416937B422 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 15:38:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pdh@localhost) by atlas.bit.net.au (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8PMcQj26891; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 08:38:26 +1000 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 08:38:25 +1000 From: Phil Homewood To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/21476: ftp in 4.1-STABLE fails on http:// URLs Message-ID: <20000926083825.C21277@atlas.bit.net.au> References: <200009251630.JAA79797@freefall.freebsd.org> <200009251702.NAA50244@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200009251702.NAA50244@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 01:02:22PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Garrett Wollman wrote: > > I'd also like to suggest that the URL functionality and the HTTP code > > be ripped out of ftp(1), but I'd probably ble flamed to hell and back > > by all the armchair generals out there, so I won't. > > I'll second. Please add me to your list. ftp(1) has no business knowing about HTTP. The URI syntax I can take or leave. But ftp(1) should concentrate on doing what it's designed to do, which is FTP. There are plenty of other tools that can do HTTP. -- Phil Homewood pdh@asiaonline.net Senior Technician +61 7 3620 1930 Asia Online (Brisbane) http://www.asiaonline.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message