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bobum
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I have a file on the web that is in an HTTP location and I want to write a batch file that will get that file. I can put START IEXPLORE http://addres/to/file.zip and it start fine, but the confirmation dialog box comes up waiting for user input and the batch hangs there.
Any ideas on how to accomplish the DL? |
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Josh
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use FTP...
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Josh
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let me be more specific... you can write a batch script to start command line ftp and pass it a script of commands... i use it every night
 works like a charm. |
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bobum
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I know exactly what you are saying - that's how I get my webserver logs - but those are from an FTP server.
I command line into FTP - load up an FTP script and it runs then comes back to my batch and processes the logs. But this file is a text file on an HTTP server. The location of this file is like http://www.myserver.com/textfile.txt and as such I can't pull it from FTP. Correct? |
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Josh
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Why can't you? I'm confused. You can pull any type of file down via ftp...
OOOHHH okay. I think I gotcha. Without writing/obtaining an app to do a screenscrape, i dont' think so. |
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bobum
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yea - there is no FTP server on the server that the file is sitting on so using FTP is out for this instance...
I may have to write a little app to do it instead of a batch file... |
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Josh
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shouldn't be too hard... you can just collect the webresponse and write it to a file... should be fairly easy...
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morecraf
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Why can't you just use wget or lynx -dump (both have windows ports- see cygwin) in your batch script to perform the download for you?
Both programs support ssl and basic/digest authentication schemes too- also a lot of other options. I hope this helps. |
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bobum
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Since these scripts reside on our new 2k3 installations using cygwin is a no-no and I can't say that I disagree with the server guys on this one. Cygwin is - well - ancient and there's no telling what kind of security risks you run by having it on your machine.
The solution we came up with is using a VBS. |
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morecraf
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Well, there are wget binaries that have been compiled for windows using VC++ 6.0:
http://allserv.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/ if your interested. |
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