Re: ftp://squid.nlanr.net/ dead?

I think you would understand if the tar archive is broken when you are extracting
files since tar program would give an error message? and http protocol lets you
know
the file size etc. so it is very safe (I personally use wget program on most of my
downloads and I did not have a broken file so far)
 http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/v2/2.2/squid-2.2.STABLE4-src.tar.gz
Evren.

David J N Begley wrote:

> In trying to download 2.2.STABLE4 via FTP (please don't tell me I have to fire
> up a Web browser somewhere and trust it for downloading such an important
> piece of software), I've hit a problem with squid.nlanr.net refusing anonymous
> connections; seems to have been disabled for a little while as it's stopped
> at least one of the mirrors from being up-to-date (ie., having STABLE4).
>
> Surely not everyone's downloading Squid these days using HTTP?? :-/
>
> dave
Received on Thu Jul 08 1999 - 09:23:47 MDT