On Friday 28 February 2003 00:57, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:18:56AM -0500, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
>   | On Friday 28 February 2003 00:12, Ian Harding wrote:
>   | > I am trying to fetch files from an HTTP server that is misconfigured.
>   | >  It returns 400 Bad Request if the browser name doesn't have start
>   | > with "Mozilla".  ftp identifies itself, sensibly, as
>   | > "NetBSD-ftp/....".
>   |
>   | What makes you say that it is mis-configured.
>
> The web site is broken if it expects the client program to return a
> particular string before allowing a download...

No argument there but...

>   | If it is a http URI then wouldn't you expect it to require http to
>   | access?
>
> ftp *does* use HTTP to retrieve http:// arguments on the command line.

Is that a feature of our FTP client or is it part of the FTP protocol?

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D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@netbsd.org>
http://www.NetBSD.org/