Michael Kraus wrote:
G'day...
I'm wanting to retrieve some files of a web server using wget.
Unfortunately though the username contains a @ symbol, and the man for
wget indicates that the way to do what I want would be to:
wget -r ftp://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/dir/file
However, the username contains a @
How do I work around this?
in this cases i use curl (just another download tool), because this allows me to specify the username and password in the netrc-file in the user's home directory. this is the work around for me. i think wget also supports this way of authentication.
i suggest to use a different tool like ncftpget for ftp transfer.
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