[nycbug-talk] silly snarf tricks

[Kevin Reiter]

> > hey who said messing with web devs was not a practicle use ;)
> > seriously tho, i would imagine that this was developed to help get
> > past buggy sites that only allow IE/NT to access files.  do you think
> > it would allow you grab files from windows update?  prolly not tho b/c
> > of all the ActiveX scripts etc...

Actually, all the Winblows Update files are on their public FTP server - you
just have to know which filenames they are to grab them.  I think there's a
database somewhere (that's also public) that lists the filename with the KB#
and soforth, so if you knew which ones you needed, no prob.

...then again, FTP isn't HTTP...

-just my half a nickel...

-Kevin

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