At 11:13 PM 12/22/2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Evan Cooch wrote:
>
> > curl --silent --data-binary --get
> > http://remote.hoste.machine/setup.exe -o
> /local/directory/for/file/setup.exe
>
>Specifying "--data-binary --get" makes no sense at all if you don't
>specify any form fields. They probably don't mean what you think they
>mean. If you just want to fetch a file and store it, you don't need any
>of that: curl -so filename http://url
>
>Now about the date/time stamp thing. You will first have to use -R to
>tell curl to save the file with the timestamp as it exists on the
>server, otherwise you will have no timestamp to compare against.
>
>Secondly, -z must take an option of either a date string or a filename.
>You seem to be aware of this when you said you tried putting it before
>the filename. But -o also needs an argument, so you will have to repeat
>the filename twice. They can't share.
>
>curl -Rso setup.exe -z setup.exe http://url/setup.exe

Thanks for the clarifications - worked perfectly.
Received on 2005-12-23