[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Seth Mattinen) wrote: > >>They've broken so many things with software downloads over the years, > >>including coded image access via FTP, crypto access via FTP, website > >>requires cookies now to fetch the images, etc.. > > > >Does anyone know why Cisco started on this thing with the downloads? Did > >they see too many inappropriate downloads or what? I'm not sure what was > >wrong with the way it worked in the old days. > > It wasn't pretty. I seriously can't think of any other reason.
Crypto images are export-controlled. The legal guys probably told them "make sure that the customer reads the stuff and clicks <accept>". Non-crypto images have been accessible by plain FTP at least until 2006 (after which we started using only images with ssh capability). I have been using wget for the "final URL" for a long time now. It does also help if you replace the FTP server name ;) Elmar. _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
