Just FYI, wget is quite handy, is opensource and is available for Windows as well... http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm And notice the line: "Wget works exceedingly well on slow or unstable connections..." That's VERY true - much more so than many other methods. Besides using it means at least that aspect doesn't need to change when moving your application from Windows to 'nix. Robert Robert F. Porter, MCSE, CCNA, ZCE Sr. Programmer / Analyst Laboratory Information Services Ochsner Health System (504) 842 - 5185 This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential information, privileged material (including material protected by the solicitor-client or other applicable privileges), or constitute non-public information. Any use of this information by anyone other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately reply to the sender and delete this information from your system. Use, dissemination, distribution, or reproduction of this transmission by unintended recipients is not authorized and may be unlawful.
>>> <[email protected]> 6/22/2009 2:48 PM >>> Thanks for the info, but we are running Windows Server 2003 R2 in both cases. At 6/22/2009 03:32 PM, you wrote: >I know we're well into this thread now, but... > >Most of my goofing around with web page grabs and the like was done >before the CallHTTP stuff was out, or when only the really early versions >that were buggy were out. So back then we just used "wget" for grabbing >web pages on our Unix based UV servers. It works like a charm and >requires very little setup to use and no programming to test and view the >results. > >An added advantage is that it runs from the Unix command line so we use it >for a pantload of other things that don't touch on UV at all. For >instance, we have a web enabled temperature sensor in our computer room. >We have a cron job that runs every 15 minutes on one of our Unix servers, >uses wget to grab the status page from the sensor and then runs the >results through some "cut" and "grep" commands to whittle the results down >to a singe number. If it breaks a threshold then it starts sending text >messages and emails to people. > > >Dave Barrett, >Lawyers' Professional Indemnity Company >_______________________________________________ >U2-Users mailing list >[email protected] >http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > >__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus >signature database 4179 (20090622) __________ > >The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > >http://www.eset.com Curt Lashley 2803 North Boulevard Tampa, FL 33602 Cell: (813) 293-2878 or (800) 886-2878 Home: (813) 226-2878 or (800) 524-2878 Fax: (813) 229-2878 _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
