wget or curl - what other options are there to download from sites?

[tankman1989]

I want to be able to set up a batch file that will download files from a specific site but would like to use something native to Windows if that is possible.

Is there anything like that in windows CL?

I found a single curl.exe file that doesn't need installed and when I copy it to the system32 folder, it never shows up. I've tried extracting it there, copying it there, pasting it there, no luck. Any ideas how to get it there and why it is doing this?

 

[FoolishTech]

Maybe 64-bit Windows is redirecting it to syswow64?

In either case, not sure why you are trying to copy it to system32 just leave it in the same dir as the batch file?

Also, not having heard of curl I do know at least that wget does a fine job and has a windows port. I mean, I could code you a quick and easy command-line downloader if I wanted to, take about 5 minutes, but why re-invent the wheel?

 

[YOCS]

Can you create an FTP batch?

 

[FoolishTech]

I can do FTP, but so can the command line version of WinSCP....

 

[stro]

The most common use of cUrl is for submitting encrypted data. It is used in almost every communication on Apache with a credit card processor.

Haven't used wget on windows, but it is very reliable on *nix

 

[tankman1989]

Well I wanted to download from web server to web server (both online services) but both are severely restricted as to the protocols and commands that can be used - being non-root. I had to settle for FTP even though SCP and RSYNC seemed to be working but it just hung at the beginning of each transfer.

Another issue is uncompressing RAR files on a Linux machine without being able to install the unrar program. It seems that zip is usually a default install but RAR isn't.