Re: curl questions
Re: curl questions
- Subject: Re: curl questions
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:04:36 -0700
At 09:22 -0600 2/17/09, Jim Brandt wrote, and I snipped:
set cmd to "curl \"" & _URL & "\" -o \"" & _T_B_S & PageName & "\""
try
with timeout of 10 seconds
do shell script cmd
end timeout
2) How do I trap this type of error? It's already in a try block.
What other choices do I have?
I find it much better to have AppleScript tell Terminal.app to
execute the curl commands in a named window. That way curl's progress
bar, written to stderr, is visible and you can use curl's trace,
timeout, and continue options. There's also no doubt about who the
user is and what the UNIX environment is because your $HOME/.tcshrc
or other shell startup script gets executed.
Files in <ftp://ftp.macnauchtan.com/Software/Progress/> and particularly
<ftp://ftp.macnauchtan.com/Software/Progress/tViewInit> and
<ftp://ftp.macnauchtan.com/Software/Progress/tViewCmd>
are getting old but I still use them in OS 10.3.9 where I'm stuck
because I refuse to give up my SE/30 file server.
Curl also has an ability to download multiple files with a single
call. If you specify something like
[a,b,c,d] in a URL you can specify:
-o somenameprefix#1somesuffix
for the local file address and curl will replace #1 with "a" for the
first file and "b" for the second and so on.
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