[c-nsp] "Enhanced" download procedure

[Seth Mattinen]

Stig Johansen wrote:
> Rodney Dunn wrote:
>> Please check the email thread a week or so back where I gave the direct contacts for feedback.
>> They are open and want to hear helpful constructive feedback.
>> Rodney
> 
> I'm really not in the mood for banging my head against the wall, so I'm asking for help from all on this list. This is a part of the reply Mr. Bauer gave me when I expressed my concerns with the inability to get a direct download-URL (to use with wget etc. from within the customer network through a SSH-session, which *was* a relatively common method I do believe):
> 
> Oscar Bauer wrote:
>> Unfortunately we cannot enabled Wget, cURL, Fetching URLs, 
>> crawling or scripting as these may have been possible to use 
>> in the past but were never supported when download software 
>>from Cisco.com. However there are several remote access clients 
>> or capabilities built into each operating system that support 
>> remote desktop access. Here are the steps to configure XP on 
>> a windows box for remote access.
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsXp/using/mobility/getstarted/Remoteintro.mspx 
>> that would allow you to run a browser at that location to download 
>> the files. If this is not a windows box there are a lot of 
>> freeware options to choose from:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_remote_desktop_software
> 
> 


So, no GUI+java, no software center. Period.

~Seth