I found some more information, the url contains the date and time stamp the
file was created.

20061031033112.

I will always know the date but not the time stamp of the file I am looking
for. Any suggestions? thanks for all of your help?

On 10/31/06, michael mittiga <mmittiga17_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am not sure I follow;
>
> The client place a file on the server daily, to grab the current file you
> need to use a datestamp "20061030" and then they have a sequence number the
> changes with no rhyme or reason. if I do 20061030* from the command line I
> get my file. if I try to do this in perl, it fails to find the file. the *
> is not being interpreted as a wild card. I am not sure why?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> On 10/31/06, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, michael mittiga wrote:
> >
> > > I need to use a wild card in the URL. from the c: prompt it works but
> > in a
> > > perl script it does not find the needed file. What am I doing wrong
> > here?
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > Any questions?
> >
> > Yes. If they send different data in the POST (as the command lines
> > differ
> > there), aren't they supposed to return different results then? And if
> > you
> > intend to send the same data, why not use --trace-ascii in both commands
> > and
> > just compare the traces afterwards to see how they differ?
> >
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>
>
Received on 2006-11-01