Re: [MacPerl] Running htget (server mirroring) under MacPerl ?

[schinder@pjstoaster.pg.md.us (Paul Schinder)]

Era Eriksson <reriksso@cc.helsinki.fi> writes:
} On Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:43:13 +0000,
} px@fct.unl.pt (Joaquim Baptista [pxQuim]) wrote:
}  > At 10:26 27/2/96, Toni Zollikofer wrote:
}  >> Finally:  if somebody has a better idea of how to mirror parts of a WWW
}  >> sites to a local machine please tell me.
}  > As the saying goes, use the right tool for the job... a perl swiss army
}  > knive is not a good substitute for a real ftp screwdriver :-)
} 
} Hmm. Can't say I agree.

Ditto here.  It's a bad idea allowing ftp access to an http hierarchy,
especially if you allow anonymous ftp.  You're leaving  a gaping
security hole wide open if your Web server allows cgi's to run.  That's
a classic attack.  Better make *damned* sure of your security before you
do this.

}   I use a program called WebCopy. It runs on top if libwww so I don't
} think it should be very hard to get it working on a Mac with
} Mac-Libwww. Given the functionality of libwww, writing your own
} shouldn't be infeasible, either. 
}   Check out <URL:ftp://ftp.inf.utfsm.cl/pub/utfsm/perl/webcopy.tgz>
} (yup, that's in Chile).
}   I believe the home for Mac-libwww should still be somewhere near 
} <ftp://mors.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/MacPerl/libwww-perl-0.40/> but surely
} somebody will correct me if this is up the creek.

Close.  That's the URL for the Unix distribution.  The Mac version is at
<ftp://mors.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/MacPerl/mac_libwww/>.

I have a script that meets my simple mirroring needs, lastm.pl
(actually, now I use lastm5.pl and libwww-perl-5, but that's another
story...).  I mirrored about 30 files to my Mac and 4 to my Sun with it.
It's also on mors:
<ftp://mors.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/MacPerl/Scripts/lastm.pl>
It also requires libwww-perl-0.40.


} 
} Hope this helps,
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