Usage

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Usage

Command Line Parameters

gethttp [-f filename] [-u UserAgent] [http://]www.somehost.com/file.htm

-f filename	Instead of writing to a file with the name found in the URL use filename
-u UserAgent	Override the default user agent used by GetHTTP. This is useful for sites that use cloaking.
URL	The URL pointing to the file to download. The starting http:// is optional and can be left out

Please note that existing local files will be overwritten without a prompt.

Examples

Example 1: Download the file http://www.netikus.net/downloads/rpm_update.pl.gz

gethttp www.netikus.net/downloads/rpm_update.pl.gz

Example 2: Download the file http://www.netikus.net/downloads/getconfig.sh and save it locally as getconfig

gethttp -f getconfig http://www.netikus.net/downloads/getconfig.sh

Example 3: Download the document http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/System/Windows__Programming/MFC/Q_22133017.html and save it locally as answer.html

gethttp -u "Googlebot" -f answer.html http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/System/Windows__Programming/MFC/Q_22133017.html

Sample Output

c:\>gethttp www.netikus.net/downloads/getconfig.sh

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GetHTTP V1.1 by NETIKUS.NET [ compiled on Oct 23 2002 ]

(nttoolkit@netikus.net)

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Command-line utility to retrieve files over HTTP

Saved file "getconfig.sh" in current directory

Received 9.53 kb in 0.310 seconds (30.76 kb/sec)