Quoting Hanno Foest ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:46:51AM -0800, Jamie Zawinski wrote:
>
> > Netscape can retrieve this URL:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/7.0/i386/apache-devel-1.3.14-3.i386.rpm
> >
> > wget cannot. wget wants it to be:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.redhat.com//pub/redhat/updates/7.0/i386/apache-devel-1.3.14-3.i386.rpm
> >
> > I believe the Netscape behavior is right and the wget behavior is wrong.
>
> I don't think so. The double slash in front of the path part of the URL
> starts the path in the ftp server's root, while the single slash starts
> it in the default directory you log into when doing anonymous ftp. The
> default directory isn't the server's root in this case, but "pub".
Right. On the other hand, wget shall be probably able to handle the
missing slash at the beginning (as Netscape does).
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