How to download a file over HTTP? InetGet()?

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I need a script that will download a file that is handed to the browser when loading this address:

$fURL = "http://localhost/stofresh/admin/easypopulate.php?download=stream&dltype=full"
InetGet($fURL, "c:\spantech\stofresh\updates\current-full.csv")
_IELoadWait ($oIE, 5000)

When I browse to that URL manually, it generates a database file and pops up a download confirmation window. However, when I execute the code above, it says "Explorer cannot save easypopulate.php" It does save the current-full.csv file, but it contains the HTML from the login page earlier in the script... Can anybody help me out with this? TIA!

[Izebize]

If you use InetGet with IE UDF then you should know that it doesn't copies the header, just creates a new one. Thats the reason why it throws the login page.

I personally recommend the WinHTTP UDF, but it takes time till you work out your IE script to WinHTTP.

Edited July 18, 2009 by Izebize

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  On 7/18/2009 at 10:33 AM, 'Izebize said:

If you use InetGet with IE UDF then you should know that it doesn't copies the header, just creates a new one. Thats the reason why it throws the login page.

I personally recommend the WinHTTP UDF, but it takes time till you work out your IE script to WinHTTP.

Thanks for the help. I am looking at the WinHTTP UDF right now. But, without any help or example files, I have no clue how to use the functions. Any chance somebody can post a simple example that will download a file from a website?

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I am not really familiar with the inner workings of the HTTP protocol so it seems a bit hard for me to figure out. But I am trying. Any chance somebody can post a simple example that will download a file from a website using the WinHTTP UDF?

Are there other methods to make this work? It seems like a very simple thing I want to do. I am currently using software called Newbie Web Automation. It is very limited and based on a pascal based scripting language. AutoIt seems MUCH better so I am rewriting the Newbie scripts to work with it. In Newbie, I can download this file with one simple line:

GetURLFile('c:\spantech\ZEN-PPI\new\current-' + GetArrayParam(1) + '.txt', 'http://localhost/stofresh/admin/easypopulate.php?download=stream&dltype=' + GetArrayParam(1));

Thanks for the help!