[Users] http only source for GetComponents

[Erik Schnetter]

I recall that wget has options to mirror a web site. This may do the trick.
(You probably referred to this when you said "careful choice of wget
options".)

-erik


On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Roland Haas
<roland.haas at physics.gatech.edu>wrote:

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> Hello all,
>
> does anybody know if it is possible to use GetComponents to check out
> (really only download) a thorn from a "dump" transport channel such as
> http right now?
>
> Eg. if there is a thorn that needs to be accessible in a temporary
> location and right now it is not in a svn repository (or similar).
>
> I tried the "http" transport but that really seems to work only for
> individual files (one can make it kind-of work with careful choices of
> wget parameters inside of GetComponents but plain vanilla
> GetComponents/trunk seems to not support it).
>
> "ftp" might work, though I am hard pressed to find an ftp server that
> one could press into service :-)
>
> Any thoughts anyone?
>
> Yours,
> Roland
>
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Erik Schnetter <schnetter at cct.lsu.edu>
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