[113888] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Ward)
Wed Apr 22 19:18:16 2009
From: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
To: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <68C921B6-4CD9-4E48-8958-343509D15AF6@hopcount.ca>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:18:10 +1200
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On 23/04/2009, at 3:33 AM, Joe Abley wrote:
> However, I take some small issue with the assertion that FTP is
> easier to script than HTTP. The only way I have ever found it easy
> to script FTP (outside of writing dedicated expect scripts to drive
> clients, which really seems like cheating) is to use tools like
> curl, and I don't see why HTTP is more difficult than FTP as a
> protocol in that case. Perhaps I'm missing something.
It looks like curl can upload stuff (-d @file) but you have to have
something on the server to accept it. FTP sounds easier.
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Nathan Ward
