In message <20030729182251.37148.qmail@web41211.mail.yahoo.com>, Gary Thorpe wr
ites:
>Why does an *ftp client* need http/https support? Or does this add SSL
>support to the ftp client? Are there any ftp servers which support SSL?
>If you want to download from HTTP/HTTPS servers, shouldn't you use
>another tool (like wget), or is there no such tool in the base system?
>

Or perhaps a front-end command 'url' that knew how to invoke ftp, 
something for http and https, etc.

The issue, I think, is that ftp is in the base system, while wget is in 
pkgsrc.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb