Eriberto <[email protected]> writes: > There are three problems here.
Thanks for taking a look! > 1. The current FTP address is > ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/old/, not > ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/old. Hm? Either name is valid, and I'd say the variant with .nlm is preferred: $ dig @ns.nih.gov ftp.ncbi.nih.gov CNAME ftp.ncbi.nih.gov. 86400 IN CNAME ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. > 2. Now, this FTP site only accepts passive mode. That shouldn't be relevant if we're switching to http(s) anyway. > 3. The FTP scan via uscan seems accept files only (not directory > names). However, this site has http too. Good point. Better yet, it has https. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/[email protected]
