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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 05:04:30PM +1300, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> Lee Forrest wrote:
> >
> > ~/<#>wget ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/
> > Connecting to ftp.slackware.com[207.173.172.131]:21
> > wget: RETR: /pub/slackware/: Not a regular file
> 
> Sorry about that.  When I tested it (just before sending 
> my message), I did a HTTP query (which worked) instead of 
> a FTP query (which doesn't).
> 
> FTP query:
> --------------------------------------------------------
> <$>wget ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/slackware/
> Connecting to ftp.nluug.nl[192.87.102.36]:21
> wget: RETR: Failed to open file.
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 
> HTTP query:
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> <$>wget http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/slackware/
> Connecting to ftp.nluug.nl[192.87.102.36]:80
> index.html   100% |********************************|  3290
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> > it doesn't seem to allow one to find out what's 
> > available on the server.
> 
> In most cases it is possible to get around this
> by putting http://  instead of  ftp://
> 
> It appears that the BL3 wget automatically 
> does a RETR when it processes ftp://   
> 
> This doesn't happen when it processes http://

Okay. What I'll do is reboot to debian, run tethereal (packet
logger) and then ncftp with the LIST command ("ls" or "dir" on
the ncftp commandline) and then use packet logs as a template and
try to write a netcat script that will do the job.

Shouldn't be any more difficult than POP or SMTP, which I've done
with netcat/sh.

Thanks, Steven, for clearing that up, and the pidof thing, too.

Lee
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