Re: Download URL File

From: Bassam Abdul-Baki (babdulbaki_at_comcast.net)
Date: 10/16/04

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    I was using "wget -t inf -o results.log
    http://www.weatherroom.com/xml/ext/22302". The default file in this case is
    22302.xml. The link works now so I can duplicate the error. I tried using
    cURL based on Torgeir's suggestion (see other reply), and that worked like a
    charm.

    Bassam

    P.S. - I like your e-mail address.

    "Marty List" <bill.gates@sun.com> wrote in message
    news:2tblajF1u71fmU1@uni-berlin.de...
    >
    > "Bassam Abdul-Baki" <babdulbaki@comcast.net> wrote in message
    > news:OA0LTgxsEHA.3740@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
    >> Hi Marty,
    >>
    >> I tried WGET and it didn't do what I wanted. Considering that I only
    > played
    >> with it for a few hours, I may have missed something. My dilemma is
    >> this.
    >> We're getting the weather news as an XML feed from an outside site by
    >> calling loadXML in a javascript function (hundreds of users on an
    >> intranet
    >> getting the weather from the internet). All of a sudden, the weather
    >> site
    >> went down and slowed down our intranet page immensely. Our solution to
    > this
    >> was to get the XML feed separately, and copy it to a local server
    > (cached).
    >> This way, users will load the local copy and the server will always check
    >> for a newer version. If no new version exists or the server's slow or
    > down,
    >> users won't feel it. However, when I used WGET (after getting rid of
    > those
    >> filename.1, .2, .3 extras), the file kept getting replaced with an empty
    >> HTML file that had a META tag REDIRECT link of zero seconds to that
    > weather
    >> page. So the cached copy would just keep trying to get the newer version
    >> over and over. I didn't think it was WGET that was doing that, but
    > clicking
    >> on the link would not bring it up in the browser, instead I would get an
    >> unknown error. I tried creating a link to the XML feed and see what
    > happens
    >> if I download it manually, I got a could not download error from IE that
    >> usually appears whenever the file doesn't exist or the URL is broken.
    >>
    >> Any suggestions on how to implement a cached copy of a file using WGET?
    >>
    >> Thanks.
    >>
    >> Bassam
    >>
    >>
    >> "Marty List" <bill.gates@sun.com> wrote in message
    >> news:2t90h4F1selglU1@uni-berlin.de...
    >> >
    >> > "Bassam Abdul-Baki" <babdulbaki@comcast.net> wrote in message
    >> > news:O%23hiR$ksEHA.2560@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
    >> >> Greetings,
    >> >>
    >> >> Is there a DOS command that will allow users to download a file from
    >> >> an
    >> > HTTP
    >> >> URL? Thanks.
    >> >>
    >> >> Bassam
    >> >>
    >> >
    >> >
    >> > Just yesterday I posted this. You could try the freeware tool
    >> > WGET.EXE:
    >> > http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html
    >> >
    >> > If you're using Windows XP you can use BITSADMIN.EXE from the Support
    >> > Tools.
    >> >
    >
    >
    > I've never had any problems with WGET, and I can't think of anything
    > special
    > you would need to do for XML files.
    >
    > Post the command line you are passing to WGET.
    >
    >
    >

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