On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:19:27AM -0500, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
  | On Friday 28 February 2003 00:57, Luke Mewburn wrote:
  | > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:18:56AM -0500, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
  | >   | On Friday 28 February 2003 00:12, Ian Harding wrote:
  | >   | > I am trying to fetch files from an HTTP server that is misconfigured.
  | >   | >  It returns 400 Bad Request if the browser name doesn't have start
  | >   | > with "Mozilla".  ftp identifies itself, sensibly, as
  | >   | > "NetBSD-ftp/....".
  | >   |
  | >   | What makes you say that it is mis-configured.
  | >
  | > The web site is broken if it expects the client program to return a
  | > particular string before allowing a download...
  | 
  | No argument there but...
  | 
  | >   | If it is a http URI then wouldn't you expect it to require http to
  | >   | access?
  | >
  | > ftp *does* use HTTP to retrieve http:// arguments on the command line.
  | 
  | Is that a feature of our FTP client or is it part of the FTP protocol?

Our ftp client, which is what the original post was talking about...