[c-nsp] Cisco IOS

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gert Doering [mailto:gert at greenie.muc.de]
>Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 1:29 AM
>To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>Cc: Jared Mauch; Paul Stewart; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Cisco IOS
>
>
>Hi,
>
>On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:30:48PM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>> Vote with your feet.  All Cisco has to do is look at the stats of the
>> image downloads from their FTP server and their www server and
>> if 99% of the images are going out www - well, can you blame them
>> if they nix the FTP server?
>> 
>> Start using FTP more to pull your images if you really want to see
>> it stay around.
>
>I use FTP all day, and WWW is only for the crypto images (and it's a 
>major PITA).
>
>Still, judging from the general trends in Cisco's face towards the 
>customer, I see FTP disappearing.  WWW is so much better to carry 
>corporate design, and make sure the customer has to click on "yes, 
>I am not a terrorist!!" every time he wants to download something...
>
>Unfortunately, you can't really say "if they do that, I'll gonna buy
>from $Vendor_X", as other vendor's web sites usually suck even more :(
>

I suppose it would not be that difficult to write a front end for this,
wget for example coupled with some extra logic to make the "yes clicks"

Ted