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  • From: James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL3.01 ftpput
  • Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:40:36 -0600 (CST)

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Ian Scott wrote:
>
> > > Is there some way to log into an ftp site with links or wget? Neither
> > > asks me for username or password.
> >
> > I suspect both would work with standard url passwording:
> >
> > wget ftp://username:password@server//path/to/url
> >
> > links http://username:password@server/path/to/file
>
>
> The wget worked perfectly, once I stopped putting ~keesan in the path and
> just gave the name of the file in my home directory.
> In the example for links, did you mean to have a // before path?

I guess the risk involved with this method is that there's no encryption,
and it wouldn't be too hard for someone to sniff out your username and
password.

James




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