HTTP background tool

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document in the background? Some sites are very slow, and they only provide HTTP access to the information they provide... while it would be nice to be able to

Re: HTTP background tool

Orn E. Hansen wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document in the background? Some sites are very slow, and they only provide HTTP access to the information they provide... while it would be

RE: HTTP background tool

On 05-Dec-97 Orn E. Hansen wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document in the background? perl certainly provides all you need. You could easily specify a URL and have a perl program download

Re: HTTP background tool

Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically : connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document : in the background? : perl certainly provides all you need. You could easily specify a URL : and have a perl program

Re: HTTP background tool

Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically : connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document : in the background? : perl certainly provides all you need. You could easily specify a URL : and have a perl program

Re: HTTP background tool

Orn E. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document in the background? Some sites are very slow, and they only provide HTTP access to the information they

Re: HTTP background tool

Dale Martin writes: I use snarf. It can do command line grabs from http, finger, ftp, and gopher. Seems to work reasonably well, and it's super simple to use. I'm not sure if it's still available or not - I don't see it in my mirror. Let me know if it's not - I'll package it.

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Eloy A. Paris writes: Do not reinvent the wheel. The Wget package will do what you want, and more. Tried it, it works great. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .