On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 01:10:14AM -0700,
 Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote 
 a message of 14 lines which said:

> NetBSD's ftp client has HTTP support too.
> 
> ftp -V -o - ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/INDEX 2>/dev/null

And it even honors ftp_proxy. Nice, we now have three ways to retrieve
a file :-)

(ftp being the only one in base, which can be useful for scripts)