instead of using cron try to download by yourself first if it works then use wget on the other hand quote the problem
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Browse All TopicsI am trying to download a text file generated via an asp script that takes multiple parameters in the url. I want to setup a cronjob that will download the resulting file every hour. I tried using wget to grab the file but that does not seem to work. I'm guessing I need to using something like lynx to tell it to grab the resulting file. If that is not an option I also have access to php via the command line. Any suggestions?
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by: TintinPosted on 2007-11-13 at 19:52:09ID: 20277531
Please define "does not seem to work".
wget or curl are quite capable of doing what you need.