[expert] Curl vs Wget

2002-07-25 Thread James Sparenberg
All, To do something we need internally (maybe later externally I don't know) we need to use either wget or curl. The question is what are the advantages of each? I notice that urpmi defaults to curl, and usually Mandrake has a viable justification for what it does,(that I trust) so perhaps

Re: [expert] Curl vs Wget

2002-07-25 Thread Ron Stodden
James Sparenberg wrote: All, To do something we need internally (maybe later externally I don't know) we need to use either wget or curl. The question is what are the advantages of each? I notice that urpmi defaults to curl, and usually Mandrake has a viable justification for what it

Re: [expert] Curl vs Wget

2002-07-25 Thread James Sparenberg
rsync is what we are moving away from because, it doesn't have what is needed. (Can't go into details sorry) I'm not trying to sync. I'm trying to download specific pieces of data or other products. wget and curl both work but I'm tasked with finding out which one other developers/users

Re: [expert] Curl vs Wget

2002-07-25 Thread Jim Tarvid
Rod was right. I use rsync over ssh and it works great. /usr/bin/rsync -avrpogtl --delete -e ssh samnite:/home/ftp/pub/mandrake-devel/ /var/ftp/pub/mandrake-devel/ In scripts I use expect. For a single file I use scp. Jim Tarvid Seriously, you should use rsync. One user states that

Re: [expert] Curl vs Wget

2002-07-25 Thread J. Craig Woods
James Sparenberg wrote: rsync is what we are moving away from because, it doesn't have what is needed. (Can't go into details sorry) I'm not trying to sync. I'm trying to download specific pieces of data or other products. wget and curl both work but I'm tasked with finding out which

Re: [expert] Curl vs Wget

2002-07-25 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:22:41 -0500 J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: rsync is what we are moving away from because, it doesn't have what is needed. (Can't go into details sorry) I'm not trying to sync. I'm trying to download specific pieces of data or