Command Line http request

[Bin Zhang]

William Oldfield writes:
 > Anyone...
 > 
 > I need to set up an automatic request for a series of text files
 > in a single directory that are delivered by a Web server.  There
 > is no "mget" in http like there is in ftp.
 > 
 > I would like to set up a small script that would automatically 
 > request each document in the directory through http.  My 
 > question is how do I communicate to a Web server from a
 > UNIX command line.  
 > 

Try WGet at <URL:http://sunsite.auc.dk/ftp/pub/infosystems/wget/>

Or, you can write a expect script (Expect is an TCL extension).  You
can basically telnet to the http port, and issue the get command.

Good luck!

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 > Thanks.
 > 
 > William Oldfield (Networked Information Research Associate)
 > University of Waterloo Library
 > (519) 888-4567 Ext 2461  wroldfie at library.uwaterloo.ca
 > http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/~wroldfie/home.html
 >