Mozilla can do it, why can't command-line ftp?

From: andrew williams (andrew.williams_at_t-online.de)
Date: 07/30/03 

Date: 30 Jul 2003 13:28:30 -0700

Hi,
   there is a site where I would like to download a number of files.
I can happily do this one file at a time using Mozilla using
http://remote.site/subdir

Obviously it would be easier to use ftp with the -i option and mget
*.*.

Since ftp's normal port seems to be blocked, I tried:
    ftp -i http://remote.site:80/subdir
Ftp tells me that it is 'requesting' this but then comes back to the
external command-line immediately.
Attempting the -n or -a options did not help.

What is Mozilla doing right that I am doing wrong?

tia

(btw. Please do not mail me, the address on the header is a red
herring)

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