Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Why not wget?

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2013/3/4 William Ahern <william@25thandclement.com>:
>
>> Unfortunately wget is far from universally available.
>
> Well, for servers with their own specialized protocol, which do not
> expose their public filesystem, one can understand that. But why should
> any server that supports sftp refuse wget? Obsolete software, OK, any
> othe reason?
>

It's not a server question; it's a client question. wget isn't
installed everywhere by default. Between wget and curl you can get
coverage for most systems, but even then there are still some machines
that don't have either.

/s/ Adam