Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 13:02:10 -0700 From: Jim Mock <mij@soupnazi.org> To: "default" <default013subscriptions@hotmail.com> Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: need webserver advice regarding wget Message-ID: <141E04EC-99C0-11D6-A1BF-000393460DB2@soupnazi.org> In-Reply-To: <OE72XsGRAd8oVSHwYNU0000e69d@hotmail.com>
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On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 12:52 PM, default wrote: > 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? Unless they want some functionality specific to wget, they should be able to use fetch (which is in the base system). It does pretty much the same thing as wget, but chances are they don't know it exists. - jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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