Re: retrieving gifs through HTTP from script

[servis@purdue.edu]

On 17 Jun, Nico De Ranter wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Nico
> 

Among one of the many ways of doing this you could use lynx to get the
file.

lynx -dump http:/...../image.gif > image.gif

There are also debian packages for htget and wget which are file
grabbers for http.

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