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Those were the early days of HTTP, so no, people didn't really get a lot of HTTP "manually" like that. We used other existing tools to get gopher and ftp though
by bagder 12y ago
Those were the early days of HTTP, so no, people didn't really get a lot of HTTP "manually" like that. We used other existing tools to get gopher and ftp though.
When I started my work on httpget in 1996, I didn't know about wget and I didn't become aware of it until several years later....
- hoboon 12y agoI would figure that by 1997 most people stopped using gopher/archive/veronica. I think I stopped by 1995 or so. now days we use curl/wget for web dev it seems? probably used it for the same thing back then but I also image that lots of people just used their own ad-hoc scripts or whatever; i wish i had firsthand knowledge of that. i used wget to download copies of websites when i found one that was mostly documents/images rather than webapps.
- weland 12y agoI use wget for plain, old regular downloads a lot. If I need to save a file to a specific place (e.g. datasheets to a doc/ directory in my project) and I have a terminal already open there (which I usually do), doing wget and middle-click is far more convenient than dealing with the browsers' "Save to..." dialog. Especially ever since they started considering a sane download manager to be one of those confusing features that users totally don't want.
- hoboon 12y ago> I use wget for plain, old regular downloads a lot. I loved wget for that. what are your options? Mine was always -r -p -k -nH --cut-dirs=2 -np