Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 22:07:27 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> To: "Micheal Patterson" <micheal@tsgincorporated.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetch / wget problem Message-ID: <200312172007.hBHK7dPj029905@lv.raad.tartu.ee> In-Reply-To: <061701c3c406$ad39cc80$4df24243@tsgincorporated.com>
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> From: "Micheal Patterson" <micheal@tsgincorporated.com> > Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:59:03 -0600 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> > Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 12:38 PM > > I think that firewalls are configured correctly, because I can > > successfully get the file manually, using the 'ftp' command. > > > > However, when I try this command: > > > > fetch ftp://user.name:password@server.mydomain.com/directory/file.ext > > > > I get an error message: > > > > I also tried wget, which succeeds to connect, but then, no matter what > > I do, insists on using passive mode. > > You may be able to do this with a .netrc in the user folder that's running > the script. Thanks for the idea, perhaps it would work. But considering that the filename to be downloaded is not fixed but needs to be passed to the script as a parameter, I think that it's easier to use CURL (as I wrote yesterday). Otherwise I would need to dynamically modify the .netrc file. -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Don't use no double negatives.
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