thanks

Yes, I sent them a message asking for an additional API call  ( there
is only an upload call..)
I could find the exact url they are calling to get the file for
download... it's an amazon S3 url, so it has keys + protection
no way to play with it...



On 15 sep, 22:33, Parker Selbert <[email protected]> wrote:
> Kad Kerforn wrote:
> > If the above link is a URI representing the file ...  no, it's a
> > request to anotherdomain.com for getting the resource with ID 579633
>
> > when I use this url in a browser : "http://www.anotherdomain.com/
> > resource/download/579633"
> > then the file (a pdf file in this case) is automatically downloaded
> > I guess the site is a RoR site, and my request is processed  and the
> > file is sent using  send_file
>
> > so, I cannot use this url has a file url directly....   GET  "http://
> >www.anotherdomain.com/resource/download/579633"
>
> Unless it is possible to get the exact url that represents the other
> resource you're trying to download I can't see how you'll save the
> resource locally. Is this a service you have a correspondance with? Look
> into how to link directly, maybe contact the site maintainer.
>
> Perhaps somebody else will have a good method for capturing though.
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