Question on wget upload/dload usage
I believe I may be using wget incorrectly. I am trying to upload .mup files to the IBM site: http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/mds/mds The purpose of this exercise is to send the invscout output (the .mup) to IBM and get back a .html file that is a formatted report of what microcode update reccomendations they are making based on it. The docs for this are found here: http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/mds/fetch?page=invreadme.html I am appending the header to the file as stated in 'about programmatic upload' http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/mds/fetch?page=mds.html But the error I get is: expecting upload file The manual upload (without the header) works fine: http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/mds/fetch?page=mdsUpload.html The wget statement looks like: wget --post-file=serverdata.mup -o postlog -O survey.html http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/mds/mds Where serverdata.mup is the upload, and survey.html is the down... and again the html I get back always has the "expecting upload file " return, with or without the header info (prepended): I am misusing wget or is this a problem with the IBM website parser? Please CC [EMAIL PROTECTED] for all replies. Thanks, Joe - Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A.
RE: Suppressing DNS lookups when using wget, forcing specific IP address
Try: wget http://ip.of.new.sitename --header="Host: sitename.com" --mirror For example: wget http://66.233.187.99 --header="Host: google.com" --mirror Tony -Original Message- From: Kelly Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 6:10 PM To: wget@sunsite.dk Subject: Suppressing DNS lookups when using wget, forcing specific IP address I'm moving a site from one server to another, and want to use "wget -m" combined w/ "diff -auwr" to help make sure the site looks the same on both servers. My problem: "wget -m sitename.com" always downloads the site at its *current* IP address. Can I tell wget: "download sitename.com, but pretend the IP address of sitename.com is ip.address.of.new.server instead of ip.address.of.old.server. In other words, suppress the DNS lookup for sitename.com and force it to use a given IP address. I've considered kludges like using "old.sitename.com" vs "new.sitename.com", editing "/etc/hosts", using a proxy server, etc, but I'm wondering if there's a clean solution here? -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile.
RE: Question on wget upload/dload usage
Joe Kopra wrote: > The wget statement looks like: > > wget --post-file=serverdata.mup -o postlog -O survey.html > http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/mds/mds --post-file does not work the way you want it to; it expects a text file that contains something like this: a=1&b=2 and it sends that raw text to the server in a POST request using a Content-Type of application/x-www-form-urlencoded. If you run it with -d, you will see something like this: POST /someurl HTTP/1.0 User-Agent: Wget/1.10 Accept: */* Host: www.exelana.com Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 7 ---request end--- [writing POST file data ... done] To post a file as an argument, you need a Content-Type of multipart/form-data, which wget does not currently support. Tony
