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Re: Libcurl for NFS

From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:28:41 -0800

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 07:54:25PM -0500, Jesse Noller wrote:
> >
> > Just use libcurl and give it a file: URL on an NFS-mounted path.
> >
>
> I was not aware that this would work - a call like
> file://foo/bar/foobar.tar.gz would work?

That's the basic idea, but you only need one slash at the beginning of
the path to access a file on the local machine. Two slashes makes it
look like 'foo' is a different machine to contact.

>>> Dan

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