On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 5:50 AM, Dmitry ☻ <evermind_at_live.ru> wrote:

> Oh, it was needed to write "-O" in up case.
> But even with it file is loading corrupted.
>
> ./curl.exe -O "
> http://sat106.sat24.nl/h-image.ashx?region=eu&time=201104091000&ir=False"
> > "C:\temp\foo.gif"
> will save foo.gif in folder C:\temp\ with null size.
> But there would be another file in curl location (C:\curl\) named
> "h-image.ashx_region=eu&time=201104091000&ir=False" that's may be viewed if
> rename in to gif.
>

That's because the -O option tells curl to use the last part of the url as
the file name. What you'll see in foo.gif is ay text output generated by
curl. What you need is:

     curl.exe -o foo.gif "http://sat106......"

Ralph Mitchell

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Received on 2011-04-09