From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 17 12:35:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA13370 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 12:35:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA13364 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 12:35:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17036 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 15:35:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199812172035.PAA17036@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Web Download To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 15:35:52 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've got a question that ju-ust borders on a ports question enough that I feel OK bringing it here. There is a server that has a single data file that we would like to download daily. This used to be done via a cron script and ftp. However, the server recently stopped allowing anonymous logins... but it is wide open under http. We want to still get this _one_ file, but the only people here with the relations and the reasons to get the ftp access to be changed back won't do it. So, I will need to use http. So, my questions are: 1) A quick look at lynx has not revealled to me a quick and dirty way to get it to download it in a script. Anyone familiar enough with lynx to show me how I would do it? 2) There are a number of mirror type utilities in the ports. However, I am pressed for space on my hard drive (and actually would rather do this on a different machine) and think that an elaborate mirror utility is overkill. Are there any web utilities that would be reasonable for downlioading _ONE_ file a day? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message