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From: woody@woodyware.com (John Woodstock)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Crawling the web..
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 23:56:33 GMT
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brian@anorak.utell.net (Brian Somers) wrote:

>Download my tcpchat program (on the website in my sig).

>You can then then say:

>for srv in ......
>do
>    if tcpchat localhost http 2>/dev/null
>    then
>        echo Found a http on $srv
>    else
>        echo No http on $srv
>    fi
>done

>You can pass the program "Expect Send" type arguments too, but if you just
>want to see if the service is there, the above should suffice.

Tried.. The browser never went into file download mode.. 

Could you e-mail attach it?