[Coco] Re: ftp.maltedmedia

[john donaldson]

    Looks like you all are trying to make somthing harder
than it needs to be. I used to run a web site back in 
Texas
and I wanted to add a FTP download to the site. After
talking to one of the web engineers at the ISP, he told me
that download ONLY FTp is basicly built into all web 
sites.
He sent me some sample HTTP code that showed how to set it
all up. Soon after I had a couple of pages that when you
clicked on an item, it brought up your download process in
your browser and downloaded it. 
     It all can be done thru HTTP.

John Donaldson


On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 08:59:05 -0500
  Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <bathory at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>At 08:19 AM 11/17/03 -0500, Nathan Woods wrote:
>>Very dumb question; why don't you put the text file on 
>>your web site and use 
>>HTTP instead of FTP?  HTTP is simpler and easier to use, 
>>and FTP is getting 
>>more and more passe every day. 
>
>Because it would look exactly the same (no links, because 
>I'm not about to
>create links for hundreds of files) as FTP? ;)  You don't 
>need an FTP
>client for download, unless something Very Bad has 
>happened to your browser
>lately.
>
>When did FTP get passé? Most download sites are FTP (even 
>if they have a
>web page with the link on it), and most major software 
>players have public
>FTP sites for patches, documents, etc.
>
>Dennis
>
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