[_] Why can't I use curl to download a file?
Dan Brickley
danbri at danbri.org
Sat Sep 9 11:52:18 BST 2006
Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
>
> On 9 Sep 2006, at 09:26, Dan Brickley wrote:
>
>> Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
>>>
>>> On 7 Sep 2006, at 14:47, stefan burt wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's very odd I can only assume that as you say it maybe my firewall
>>>> but it seems odd that I can access html based content but not ftp.
>>>
>>> *very* different protocols.
>>>
>>> Richard Stevens RIP.
>>>
>>
>> HTML's a protocol?
>
> No, http:// and ftp:// are.
>
> Never telnetted to port 80? Never run FTP from the command line?
>
> Hm, maybe a topic for a Skillswap: this is what happens when you hit
> return.
Never hosted HTML-based content on an FTP server? I was just being a
pedant, sorry ;)
Yeah, would be a good topic for a skill swap. For the
commandline-averse, I reckon just seeing
http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/ in action (and tailing a matching
webserver HTTP log) could be pretty educational...
Dan
>
> On 9 Sep 2006, at 09:26, Dan Brickley wrote:
>
>> Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
>>>
>>> On 7 Sep 2006, at 14:47, stefan burt wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's very odd I can only assume that as you say it maybe my firewall
>>>> but it seems odd that I can access html based content but not ftp.
>>>
>>> *very* different protocols.
>>>
>>> Richard Stevens RIP.
>>>
>>
>> HTML's a protocol?
>
> No, http:// and ftp:// are.
>
> Never telnetted to port 80? Never run FTP from the command line?
>
> Hm, maybe a topic for a Skillswap: this is what happens when you hit
> return.
Never hosted HTML-based content on an FTP server? I was just being a
pedant, sorry ;)
Yeah, would be a good topic for a skill swap. For the
commandline-averse, I reckon just seeing
http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/ in action (and tailing a matching
webserver HTTP log) could be pretty educational...
Dan