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Re: wget or curl?



thankyou all


On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Oliver Schneider<Borbarad@gmxpro.net> wrote:
> I tend to prepare my scripts for either of these, by saying:
>
> wget <URL> || curl -L -O <URL>
>
> curl supports of course more protocols, but then if you only need FTPS I haven't seen that explicitly mentioned by wget docs either. But I might err ...
>
> // Oliver
>
> PS: Had accidentally replied to the sender only.
>
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> Datum: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:58:13 -0500
>> Von: Mark Allums <mark@allums.com>
>> An: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>> Betreff: Re: wget or curl?
>
>> Mag Gam wrote:
>> >  I would like to automatically get files from a FTPs using TLS. Is it
>> > better to use wget or curl?
>> >
>> > or is there another alternative?
>> >
>> > TIA
>>
>>
>>
>> If you have the resources (i.e., disk space, etc.) install both.  No
>> need to decide unless you must.  Some applications (scripts) expect
>> wget, others like curl.  I would say curl is more of a requirement, wget
>> is more optional.   But that is in my experience, others might have
>> other experiences.
>>
>> (This point of view is from a non-technical standpoint.  Looking forward
>> to reading what others have to say.)
>>
>>
>> Mark Allums
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