Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 12:04:43 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, 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: <20000926120443.A2616@ringwraith.office1.bg> In-Reply-To: <20000925215554.A67144@nagual.pp.ru>; from ache@nagual.pp.ru on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 09:55:55PM %2B0400 References: <200009251630.JAA79797@freefall.freebsd.org> <200009251702.NAA50244@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20000925215554.A67144@nagual.pp.ru>
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On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 09:55:55PM +0400, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 01:02:22PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > <<On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 09:30:02 -0700 (PDT), Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> said: > > > > > 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. > > I agree about HTTP code which needs to be removed, but not about URL > functionality, which should stay but be restricted to ftp:// only. Yep, the ability to type ftp ftp://ftp.server.dom/path/ and have the client perform an anonymous login automatically and *then* leave you in an interactive session is *very* useful. HTTP in an FTP client is not really all that useful, at least not to me :> G'luck, Peter -- I am the meaning of this sentence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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