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Date:      Tue, 26 Sep 2000 08:38:25 +1000
From:      Phil Homewood <pdh@bit.net.au>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, 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>
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
References:  <200009251630.JAA79797@freefall.freebsd.org> <200009251702.NAA50244@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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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.

<AOL> Please add me to your list. </AOL>

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/


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