Hi all,

Though I don't have time to send tips anymore(not right now), i will
try to send
whatever valuable information I have from time to time.

$lftp http://www.openbsd.org/
lftp> mget *pdf
lftp> quit

LFTP is what wget should have done. ;)

LFTP can talk HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SFTP and so on. ;)

There is no protocol it cannot talk.

Whenever I struggled in vain to make wget understand simple things I
now realize I should have simply
used lftp instead.

Heck, it was time wasted. ;)

And job not done. Not nice.

Anyway I don't wish that you go through the same troubles.

LFTP can download recursively in mirror mode. This is useful for FTP
mirroring but there i no reason why this
can't work for HTTP.

You can write a script or HEREDOC and invoke with

lftp -f script.lftp

$ cat script.lftp
 open -u user, pass ftp://host:port/path/
  ls
  quit

There is also a queue facility in which it does background transfers
like wget -b.

More later.

Have fun.

-Girish

-- 
Gayatri Hitech
web: http://gayatri-hitech.com

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