Nice Princess Bride ref, Tanner :} William Sutton
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Tanner Lovelace wrote: > On 8/25/05, Shane O'Donnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So here's the real use case... > > > > A web server, for which I have ONLY HTTP access, has an MP3 > > repository. So does my laptop. I want to be able to pull a complete > > listing of available MP3s, including directory information (which > > contains artist, album info) and compare it to the MP3s I have on my > > laptop so I can determine what I need to push to the web server and > > what is available that I don't have on my laptop. > > > > So is "a manual rsync via HTTP" a better description? > > Shane, > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears you want to do > two things. > > 1. Copy any files you don't have from the http server to your laptop > 2. Copy any files that are only on the laptop to the server. > > With only http access I can't help you with #2. (I mean, if we only > had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.) But, with #1, > you should be able to do it with wget. Look up the docs for > "mirroring" and for restricting what it gets by file extension. > Then, as long as the directory layouts are the same, have > it mirror and only get mp3 files. > > Cheers, > Tanner > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
