All of which ignores the basic reality that it's not _my_ firewall, and I can't dink with it. The sites I have problems with tend to be running Linux and Apache (at least I assume Red Hat runs on it's own products). So, until the situation miraculously heals itself, I make do with what I've been handed.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 1:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RedHat 7.2 Code Changes Between RC2 and GA > Not when you're behind a firewall that causes the date and time information > to be lost during the retrieval. :( I've had "uneven" results with wget > behind my company's firewall, to say the least. Some downloads work just > fine, others do not. This method was instituted for one of the sites that > did not. If the firewall is tampering with Last-modified: headers (HTTP) it's broken and needs to be fixed. In ftp, wget gets your standard Unix listing and parses it (with the result the timestamps are imprecise). If the listing's not Unix-format, wget can't parse it. > Mark Post > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 5:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: RedHat 7.2 Code Changes Between RC2 and GA > > > > Mike, > > > > There wasn't a lot of difference, but more than just a few files. I > pointed > > my web browser at Red Hat's FTP server, did a cut and paste of the RPMS > > directory, and stuck that in a file. Then, I wrote a small Rexx exec to > > take that and compare it to an "ls -l>output" command run on my local > system > > to tell me what I needed to download. It only looked at file sizes, not > > dates, but it was enough to save me from downloading the entire GA > > directory. I can send the Rexx program to you if you want. > > wget does pretty much that. > > > -- > Cheers > John Summerfield > > Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ > > Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my > disposition. > -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.
