On Thu, 08 Jun 2000, Florian Forster wrote about, Re: wget and lynx:
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 06:15:54AM +0000, Richard Adams wrote:
>
> > lynx when configured for proxy will do what you require.
>
> that is an _http-client_.. his ftp-functions are not that good..
The question was, " A console based program", is that not the case.?
There is in my opinion nothing bad about lynx for passing proxies and
retriving files via ftp.
>
> > As per above and another is 'wget' i have never used it but in its manual
> > page it does say "proxy" is supported.
>
> wget is an http-client, too. maybe it can connect to ftp-servers, too, but i am not
>sure.
I did not say it was not, It CAN do file transfers, which is why i
suggested it.
>
> btw: silly isp. why don't you change it??
Many ISP's have reasons for doing things like that.
>
> regards,
> flo
>
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