Subject: Re: pkg_add
To: Tomasz Luchowski <zuntum@eik.pl>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.yi.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/11/2001 02:00:31
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Tomasz Luchowski wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:03:03AM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> > This does not work with http.
> > It does work with ftp.
> > There's no chance it'll happen with http.
> why that? even ftp(1) knows how to fetch files via http protocol.

You can't do a directory listing on a web server.

Jared