On 12 Jul 00, at 10:15, Sudhakar Chandra wrote:
> > anyone point out a url which has some details about how ftp search takes
> > place..
>
> In the Good Old Days archie was the way to go. Archie was to FTP what
> Yahoo, Google and other search engines are to HTTP. I think archie is not
> very popular these days. Some of the web search engines also allow you to
> search FTP sites.
I am working on a downloader which will ping all the ftp searched sites for
a particular package. Now the problem is,
1.do I do the ftp search through a third party engine like lycos, which
gives more results, but is difficult to implement because I have been
unable to cull all the results from the lycos ftpsearch to a .txt file
against which ping will run.
2. Do I run ftp search(via Archie, of course) from the user machine which
takes longer, gives less results, less reliable, but is eadier to implement.
BTW, does Debian have a package to do all this in one go.
-Rgds
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