> Funny, I use lftp because it is user friendly. I don't use wget because > it is not user friendly.
Yes, very funny, since wget just gets the specified URL to local disk and is done with it, whereas lftp requires some farting with -c, quoting, and ftp commands which I have no interest in knowing anything about if I can avoid it, otherwise it just barfs. See (any file will do): > lftp ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/README.mirror-policy cd: Access failed: 550 CWD command failed. (/pub/README.mirror-policy) User-friendly indeed. Not. With http it's as bad: > lftp http://google.com/ Sits there waiting for me. Ho hum. Ok, give it a file then: > lftp http://google.com/index.html cd: received redirection to `http://www.google.com/index.html/' cd: Access failed: 404 Not Found (/index.html) Ooops. No comment. > wget ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/README.mirror-policy ... 19:48:56 (27.63 KB/s) - `ftp.suse.com/pub/README.mirror-policy' saved [2277] (I set dirstruct=on in /etc/wgetrc, otherwise it would save to local path.) > wget http://google.com/ ... 19:50:01 (26.21 MB/s) - `www.google.co.nz/index.html' saved [2611] I can see a clear winner here. Uhhm, well for files < 2GB. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
