Automating reports

[DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI]

Here's something I dug up with google entitled "A quick wget tip":

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/fintanr/20050113

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A wget tip, or maybe not. I was working on a script today that had to
do a submission of a very long parameter string to a cgi script, and it
turned out to be too long for a get. So I went off and visited the wget
manpages (man -M /usr/sfw/man wget). And here I noted the --post-data
option which I hadn't been aware off before. A quick example is in order
I think. 

Lets say you are doing a submission to a url with a submission string
of: 

http://foo.com/cgi/myScript?really_long_set_of options 

Rather than doing: 

wget http://foo.com/cgi/myScript?really_long_set_of_options

You can do:

wget --post-data 'really_long_set_of_options'
http://foo.com/cgi/myScript 

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HTH

-Dan

>>> linux478 at yahoo.com 10/04/05 3:03 PM >>>
wget complains that the filename is too long

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