RE: URL access scripting
RE: URL access scripting
- Subject: RE: URL access scripting
- From: "Wadson, David" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:46:58 -0500
The download command requires a file specification, not just the location.
There is an AppleScript Guidebook at www.apple.com/applescript that fully
explains URL Access Scripting and has plenty of examples...
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> OK, I am saying:
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> tell application "URL Access Scripting"
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> download "ftp://ftp.MacOSphere.com/test.txt"; to desktop
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> end tell
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> But getting error "Can't make some data into the expected type"
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> What's wrong?
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Well, I haven't used URL Access Scripting myself, but taking a quick look
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its dictionary I don't see 'desktop' as one of its keyword parameters.
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Assuming (?) that the URL string is of a type that it likes, how about
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trying something that will return a file specification as its 'to'
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parameter
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says it requires? Will this work?
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download "ftp://ftp.MacOSphere.com/test.txt"; to (path to desktop)