[BusyBox] Extending wget

[Owens, Steve]

You're right, and I thought about that. However wget was the first thing I
latched onto as it uses a URL on the command line (I liked the idea of
passing around a URL instead of a list of arguments) and it allows us to
extend our file retrieval capabilities to the web, which *might* be useful
to some of our guys in the field. Since I've got to get this out the door
RSN, I'll probably have use what I've got for now, but I'll make the changes
to ftpget and post the diffs when I get the chance.

Another thought occurred to me while I was looking at the code: why does
wget essentially duplicate the code of ftpget? On it's face it seems as
though calling ftpget from within wget would make the code smaller. Any
thoughts?


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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Angielski [mailto:jeff at theptrgroup.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 11:37 PM
To: Owens, Steve; Busy Box (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [BusyBox] Extending wget



Steve,

You might want to look at the ftpput and ftpget applets that were added to
the 
CVS tree a few months ago.  Sounds like these might be the place for your 
changes to support FTP directory listings.


On Tuesday 11 March 2003 02:17 pm, Owens, Steve wrote:
> I've added some functionality to wget to do FTP directory listings. The
> system I'm working on needed to build some dynamic menus for file
> transfers, and since a full FTP client was unavailable in busybox I added
a
> "-L" command line argument to wget. It takes a filename to write the list
> to as a required argument. If there's any interest in folding this into
> busybox cvs, let me know.
>
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> other way.
> -- Mark Twain
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