[plug] mirroring and updating a remote http directory

[Craig Foster]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au 
> [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au] On Behalf Of Ben Jensz
> Sent: Friday, 6 August 2004 12:00 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] mirroring and updating a remote http directory
> 
> http://www.vet.com.au/files/libad/sigs/ is the URL.
> 
> I figured its probably the easiest way of figuring out which 
> is the latest def, have the files locally first.  Rather than 
> trying to grep out the latest filename out of the HTML 
> directory listing.
> 
> 
> / Ben
Actually http://www.vet.com.au/files/libad/modules.txt is the current files
marker, and if that's the same, you don't have to download any updates.

Even signed for security...

Use a Vet master setup, which does this automatically...

CraigF.