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Re: HTTP background tool



Ralph Winslow <rjw@rjw.nac.net> wrote:

: >  I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically
: >connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document
: >in the background?

: perl certainly provides all you need.  You could easily specify a URL
: and have a perl program download its file and everything it links to and
: everything its links link to. If you start with yahoo, and have infinite
: disk resources...

Do not reinvent the wheel. The Wget package will do what you want, and
more.

E.-

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