Re: retrieving gifs through HTTP from script
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 11:51:33AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote:
> I need to write a script dat will download a gif from an HTTP
> server. Unfortunately it turns out that when I telnet to the
> webserver (port 80), issue "GET test.gif" and pour the output
> into a file (making sure to remove the three header lines) the
> gif turns out not to be useable. My best guess is that HTTP
> somehow encodes binary files when transferring them.
> Does anybody know how to download a gif that way or is their
> an app somewhere that will do this for me.
wget will do this for you, and is available for Debian.
Hamish
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