Secure Download

[LurchMan]

Hey everyone -

I'm working on a small project that logs into an external website, then downloads a file from it each day. The problem I'm having is that if I use INetGet after I login using the _IE* functions and leave IE open in the background, all it downloads is a file containing the HTML source of the login page.

Is there a way to do this without clicking on the link through the _IE* functions and automating the download dialogs?

Any questions let me know. Thanks in advance.

--Lurch

Edit: Forgot to mention this website after you login becomes a secure website of some sort.

Edited August 12, 2011 by LurchMan

[wakillon]

Hey everyone -

I'm working on a small project that logs into an external website, then downloads a file from it each day. The problem I'm having is that if I use INetGet after I login using the _IE* functions and leave IE open in the background, all it downloads is a file containing the HTML source of the login page.

Is there a way to do this without clicking on the link through the _IE* functions and automating the download dialogs?

Any questions let me know. Thanks in advance.

--Lurch

Edit: Forgot to mention this website after you login becomes a secure website of some sort.

If it's java link you can't, but if it's a normal link you can retrieve it by ie or source code.

[LurchMan]

If it's java link you can't, but if it's a normal link you can retrieve it by ie or source code.

I'm no website expert by any means but I don't think its a java link (I don't see anything in the source of the website that would make me think its java. The link has an "href" in the source pointing towards the file.

Could you elaborate a little more please? I've got this functioning by automating the dialog boxes currently but when I have to deploy this app to several users with varying systems that becomes a little tricky. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

[wakillon]

Try this for extract all links of a web page.

#include <Array.au3>

$_Source = _GetSourceCode ( $_Url )
$_ArrayLinks = StringRegExp ( $_Source, '(?s)(?i)<a href="(.*?)"', 3 )
_ArrayDisplay ( $_ArrayLinks )

Func _GetSourceCode ( $_Url )
    $_InetRead = InetRead ( $_Url )
    If Not @Error Then
        $_BinaryToString = BinaryToString ( $_InetRead )
        If Not @Error Then Return $_BinaryToString
    EndIf
    Return 0
EndFunc ;==> _GetSourceCode ( )

[LurchMan]

I've got a way to extract the links, the problem I'm having is I can't get it to download the file without using the download dialog boxes.

Edit: I was heading in the completely wrong direction with this. Thank you for taking your time to look at this though.

Edited August 15, 2011 by LurchMan