Wget is a great tool for retrieving web data however I prefer cURL
because it can be used to both get and send data. It too works on both
Unix and Windows.
Robert Porter wrote:
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.
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<[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.
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