7/2004              New Data Download Method (FTP2U)

We are moving from the "ftp to your machine" to "copy the data to
our anonymous FTP server, and you'll pick it up" method of data
access.  Expect the former method to "disappear" someday.  We
want to get rid of the former method because it is a security
risk for security-awareness challenged users.  For the users
who send the data to a security hardened anonymous ftp site
outside their firewall, the former method is great.  Any
security-aware user knows that this is the only way it should
be done.  However, we worry that some security-awareness 
challenged users would send the data to an administrator account.  
This is silly for many obvious reasons.  Eventually the former
access method will be discontinued so security-awareness
challenged users will have to pick up the latest spyware, trojan,
virus and backdoor by the conventional methods.  

7/19/2004:  all sample download scripts have been
converted to the new download method.

BTW we considered using secure copy to transfer the data
but decided that it would be too challenging for the 
security-awareness challenged users.  Even for the other
users, getting the security people to agree to make a hole
in the firewall can be a task.

                            wget vs wwwgrab


Note: If you prefer to use wget rather than wwwgrab,
you can run wget in wwwgrab-mode.

    wwwgrab "http://page" >outputfile
    wget --output-document=- -q "http://page" >ouputfile