On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Dinko Yaksic wrote: > I wonder if there's (are) command(s) to "reuse" the connection, I > mean to avoid the process of authenticating when download 2 or more files > from the same server. For example, if I execute: > > wget --passive-ftp -i download.txt -B ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > occurs that for every single file in download.txt, the client (wget) > logs-in & close connection, instead of reusing the current FTP connection > for retrieving the next file (since it's already inside the ftp).
curl (http://curl.haxx.se/) offers multiple FTP downloads from the same site similar to this, but re-uses the same connection as long as possible. curl is however not a wget clone, so there will be features only wget can do, and vice versa. -- Daniel Stenberg - http://daniel.haxx.se - +46-705-44 31 77 ech`echo xiun|tr nu oc|sed 'sx\([sx]\)\([xoi]\)xo un\2\1 is xg'`ol
