Did you look at the actual FTP URLs? It's possible they had FTP running on a nonstandard port. Jayson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:24 AM Subject: Re: ot, wrn.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 09:50:49PM -0500, Chris Brannon wrote: >> The "yp.shoutcast.org" link points to a playlist. You can use it with >> mplayer like so: >> mplayer -playlist >> http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=964853 > > Hmmm, that might be a crude, but workable way to download, by piping > the output to an ogg/flac/whatever file. I'll have to investigate that > as a temporary solution. Thanks for mentioning it. > >> PS. Didn't these guys used to provide downloadable programs on an FTP >> site? Maybe I imagined it. They don't do so now, as far as I can tell. > > Yes, sort of. You had to use the link to download from their web site, > and the download came from their ftp server, which seemed to be a list > of rotating ip addresses, no host names. However, I once tried to ftp > to one of those ip addresses, without using the download link from > their site first, and I couldn't connect. So, my guess is that > clicking the download link caused a firewall to allow 1 connection per > link from your ip address to one of their ip addresses, but that's > just a guess. > > Greg > > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkrnx3EACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyCM2QCfT+4LCLnIPvPuJu8aICTPiYGP > k1gAn09TpW7CuESs+xaerXKkcCb2+e4M > =UkbT > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
