See 'GET /url...' location in the output in the first example: j.
$ ftp -o /dev/null -M -d http://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/ host ftp.eu.openbsd.org, port (null), path pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/, save as /dev/null, auth (null). Trying 77.238.36.16... Requesting http://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/GET /pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/ HTTP/1.0 Host: ftp.eu.openbsd.org User-Agent: OpenBSD ftp received 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK' received 'Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 18:06:35 GMT' received 'Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)' received 'Vary: Accept-Encoding' received 'Content-Length: 6018' received 'Connection: close' received 'Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8' 6018 bytes received in 0.01 seconds (670.27 KB/s) $ ftp -o /dev/null -M -d -V http://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/ host ftp.eu.openbsd.org, port (null), path pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/, save as /dev/null, auth (null). GET /pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/ HTTP/1.0 Host: ftp.eu.openbsd.org User-Agent: OpenBSD ftp received 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK' received 'Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 18:06:44 GMT' received 'Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)' received 'Vary: Accept-Encoding' received 'Content-Length: 6018' received 'Connection: close' received 'Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8' Index: fetch.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/ftp/fetch.c,v retrieving revision 1.149 diff -u -p -u -p -r1.149 fetch.c --- fetch.c 20 Aug 2016 20:18:42 -0000 1.149 +++ fetch.c 8 Dec 2016 18:16:44 -0000 @@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ noslash: #endif /* !SMALL */ if (verbose) - fprintf(ttyout, "Requesting %s", origline); + fprintf(ttyout, "Requesting %s\n", origline); /* * Construct and send the request. Proxy requests don't want leading /. $ /home/jirib/cvs/openbsd-src/usr.bin/ftp/obj/ftp -o /dev/null -M -d http://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/ host ftp.eu.openbsd.org, port (null), path pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/, save as /dev/null, auth (null). Trying 77.238.36.56... Requesting http://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/ GET /pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/ HTTP/1.0 Host: ftp.eu.openbsd.org User-Agent: OpenBSD ftp received 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK' received 'Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 18:10:51 GMT' received 'Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)' received 'Vary: Accept-Encoding' received 'Content-Length: 6018' received 'Connection: close' received 'Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8' 6018 bytes received in 0.00 seconds (49.48 MB/s) And comparison with curl: $ curl -i -v -o /dev/null -s http://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/ * Trying 77.238.36.56... * TCP_NODELAY set * Connected to ftp.eu.openbsd.org (77.238.36.56) port 80 (#0) > GET /pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/ HTTP/1.1 > Host: ftp.eu.openbsd.org > User-Agent: curl/7.51.0 > Accept: */* > < HTTP/1.1 200 OK < Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 18:25:18 GMT < Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) < Vary: Accept-Encoding < Content-Length: 6018 < Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 < { [2724 bytes data] * Curl_http_done: called premature == 0 * Connection #0 to host ftp.eu.openbsd.org left intact
