[wellylug] Please recommend a decent ISP. Not IHUG !
Stephen Judd
stephen at vital.org.nz
Wed Apr 23 08:21:48 NZST 2003
On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 07:52, michael at diaspora.gen.nz wrote:
> I looked for a client that would prompt, and be readily available;
> lynx won't prompt, wget (on my system, anyway) won't handle https,
> and lwp-request won't either. Suckie.
wget does on mine.
>From the man page:
GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from
the Web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as
retrieval through HTTP proxies.
Witness:
stephen at spleen:/home/stephen$ wget https://www.bnz.co.nz
--08:18:22-- https://www.bnz.co.nz/
=> `index.html'
Resolving www.bnz.co.nz... done.
Connecting to www.bnz.co.nz[203.57.241.205]:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
[ <=> ] 26,701 52.68K/s
08:18:24 (52.68 KB/s) - `index.html' saved [26701]
<ewen>apt-get update; apt-get install wget</ewen>
:)
stephen
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