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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 01:03:43PM +1300, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> sindi keesan wrote:
> >
> > httpd in busybox (run from the directory where I want to 
> > serve files with no options, just defaults) loaded but 
> > did not serve the directory. 404 not found. 
> 
> The busybox httpd does not serve directories.  If there 
> is no index.html in the directory, you get 404.
> 
> > Has anyone used it with BL?
> 
> Yes, I use it often -- mostly to upload files to the 
> BL3 sites.  I ssh to the site and wget the file from 
> my computer (on dialup!).  Pretty cool.
> 

_Very_ cool.

There's also the PUT and POST methods for transfering files
to a webserver, as defined in rfc1945 (HTTP/1.0). It would
be possible to create a netcat script that would do that,
although I don't know what the permission issues would be.

It's just another request like the usual GET we use to download
webpages. It's a pretty simple protocol, actually.

wget http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt

Lee