Hi,

 I noticed the hard way a hidden "missing feature" of pkg-get.
<http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/pkg-get.html>

pkg-get desesperatly needs the FTP globbing feature of wget.
The big problem is, FTP access is often possible from private networks only through an 
HTTP proxy.
When you tell wget to use this HTTP proxy to do the FTP access, via definition of the 
variable 
'ftp_proxy', wget naturally switches to the HTTP download mode. But... HTTP globbing 
is not supported (yet 
???) by wget !


My conclusion : pkg-get is unusable from a private network.

Sincerely,

Marc.

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