Command Line http request

[Earl Young]

some of you may not be familiar with Expect.

"Expect" will do this kind of thing easily.  Expect is freeware written by Don 
Libes (there is an O'Reilly book on the software) and it runs on Unix systems.  
Expect causes remote machines to think they are talking with a keyboard - that's
a too-brief summary - and allows you to automate previously labor-intensive 
things.  Expect will not navigate MS Windows software, but will work inside 
X-Windows.  It is marvelous software.

Earl Young
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Subject: RE: Command Line http request
Author:  bzhang at lama105.kcc.hawaii.edu at INTERNET
Date:    1/29/97 5:05 AM


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 
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