Re: Retrieving file from URL link

http://www.bvstools.com/geturi.html

curl and wget also work well but require pase and some unix scripting know-how.

Shalom Carmel
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Rowe" <dbg400.net@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: Retrieving file from URL link

On 04/10/2007, Danforth, Ken <kdanforth@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

We have a customer that wants to send us a URL link to an Excel file. If I am in a browser I can click the link and then click "Save" and so on. But I want to automate the retrieval of the file. Is there any way to retrieve this file using a program on the iSeries?

Hi Ken

You could do it through Scott Klement's HTTPAPI -
http://www.scottklement.com/httpapi/ - which will require a little
programming.

Another way is to run one of the *nix url grabbers that run in PASE -
both curl and wget are available. Unfortunately the main source for
these AIX utilities, aixpdslib - the AIX Public Domain Software
Library, was retired recently, though it appears there is at least one
mirror[1] available -
http://computer-refuge.org/classiccmp/aixpdslib/pub/

Regards, Martin
[1] I have a local copy of the aixpdslib archive so I can make them
available from my site if the mirror doesn't work for you.
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