Sthitaprajna proclaimed:
> 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.
Ewwww. The search interfaces provided by lycos et al are extremely
non-standard. Don't.
> 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.
Archie is dead. I would not depend on it being around for long.
If you are writing something for downloading software from FTP sites, how
about hooking upto Freshmeat / RpmFind / packages.debian.org / Sunsite ?
Probably a much easier solution.
One thing to keep in mind is the fact that the name of a particular file
might not be any indicator of what the file contains. Take, for example,
Netscape Communicator. The file that you download for WinDOS is named
something like cc32e453.exe
> BTW, does Debian have a package to do all this in one go.
No.
Thaths
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