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The File Transfer Protocol is a old, simple, and insecure method of
sharing files between computers. The Hurd supports it via `ftpfs`.
$ settrans gnu.org /hurd/ftpfs ftp://ftp.gnu.org
$ cat ftp\:/ftp.gnu.org/README | grep GNU | head -n 2
This is ftp.gnu.org, the FTP server of the the GNU project.
gnu/ Contains GNU programs and documents that we develop for the GNU
So it's actually pretty cool to use standard command line utilities to
search through a remote file. But it is slightly a hassle to set up
`ftpfs` by hand for each server like this.
With the Hurd's [[hostmux]] you can actually skip that first
settrans command, and type in any FTP server and automatically connect
to it. On my box, this just works:
$ ls ~/ftp://ftp.gnu.org/
`~/ftp:` is already set up to re-route any path lookup to the correct
FTP server. You can set up `~/ftp:` on your Hurd OS via the
[[hostmux]] translator:
$ settrans -c $HOME/ftp: /hurd/hostmux /hurd/ftpfs /
The [[translator primer|hurd/documentation/translator_primer]] shows
you how you can use ftpfs to mount a remote iso file and examine its
contents.
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