Herold Heiko wrote:
>
> >I think the most straightforward mapping would also be the
> >most attractive:
> >
> > ftp/site/dir/file
> > http/site/dir/file
> >
> >Wget should certainly have an option to make it behave this
> >way. In fact,
> >I'd prefer it to behave that way by default, for the reasons
> >you mention,
> >and introduce an option to leave off the protocol.
> >
>
> I agree. What about https ?
What about answering on more than one port like java.sun.com used to do
where :80 had a java menu and :81 not. This is a bad example as it was
mostly the same web-site
> The files could be either in a separate https directory (logically more
> correct) or reside in the http directory in order to minimize
> ../../../../dir/dir/dir/something url rewriting (since I suppose those
> pages could share lots of inline pics and other links with the http
> structure).
>
> Speaking of https, I got exactly one report (in private mail) of
> successfully testing of the windows ssl enabled binary, nothing else.
>
> Could you commit the patch as
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00142.html ?
> The changes in gen_sslfunc.c could be needed anyway for other operating
> systems (the are mirrored from similar code in sysdep.h and http.c,
> although I just noticed a inconditional include of time.h in
> ftpparse.c), while the changes in the VC makefile are as default
> commented out.
>
> Heiko
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