Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 08:22:53 -0800 From: Shalom Halevy <shalevy@mathwizards.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>, java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/java/jdk1.1.5.V98-2-8.tar.gz via FTP? Message-ID: <34E321DD.C53CA336@mathwizards.com> References: <199802111957.MAA29945@mt.sri.com> <Pine.SGI.3.96.980212153651.5462B-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz> <199802120255.TAA02503@mt.sri.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] We have a site hosted on a FreeBSD machine acceesed via dialup connection from an NT machine. We can telnet to the FreeBSD machine and then FTP to freebsd.org and get any file easily. The HTTP protocol forces us to download the file to the NT machine (dialup speed) and then FTP it to our FreeBSD machine (another dialup speed). Using fetch(1) might help. Our solution was to use the HTTP protocol BUT we accessed it via telnet to port 80 from the FreeBSD machine. We issued the command GET <filename> to the HTTP server and sure enough the file was retrieved to our FreeBSD machine at no time. Thanks Nate Williams wrote: > > > > I don't know of any public ftp sites, sorry. > > > > Assuming you're on a FreeBSD box, what about using fetch(1) to > > retrieve the file? > > Why not use the browser to retrieve the file? > > Nate -- +==================================================================+ | Dr. Shalom Halevy | MathViews, ActiveX, WaveForm | | Email: shalevy@mathwizards.com | MathXplorer, WaveXplorer | | Snail mail: PO Box 22564, | | | San Diego, CA 92192, USA | Windows and scientific | | URL: http://www.mathwizards.com/ | software development | +==================================================================+ [-- Attachment #2 --] begin: vcard fn: Shalom Halevy n: ;Shalom Halevy email;internet: shalevy@mathwizards.com x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version: 2.1 end: vcard
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