I suspect a subject line with the P-word in it will at least hook folks into reading this... ;-)
Problem: developer has access to a website with tar/gzipped log files...archived into folders by year 2005/ and month 01/ 02/ and then the filename has a date in it too - daily. He complains, "Whaaaa! I need more than one file, so without SCP access, I have to click click click... Whaaa!" I say, "Shut up and write a 3 line script to automate the HTTP call... and leave me alone." (I can only imagine what he's thinking about my parentage after that IM. ;-) But this begs a question for the group here... if he asks, "What are the three lines?" and I decide to do all his freakin' work for him... then, I'd write a little perl script because I've done this in Perl at least a dozen times in my life so it's familiar. I wouldn't grab java because although commons has an http client that's slick, I'd also have to write files and I suck at that in java. But if I make the developer learn how to fish... well, perl might not be apropos given his skillset (i.e. no perl), so I don't know what would be best to suggest to him. So if you were doing this task, how would you approach it? What tool would you use? And more importantly, why? -Timo P.S. there are no bonus points for "out of the box" approaches like, "change the server logging setup" or "attach a drive share", etc. The point is to focus on the HTTP task and how to do that. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
