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Using VBScript to get a web page

I love wget on linux, but what if you wanted to do the same thing on Windows, and do it in a scripted fashion.

Well, Wscript has this handy WinHttp.WinHttpRequest object

whiz up something like....


Set objHTTP = CreateObject( "WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1" )

objHTTP.Open "GET", "http://www.xyz.net.au:8081/somefile", False
objHTTP.Send

Of course, you'll probably want to do something with the file, and you can with objHTTP.ResponseBody

I got this from http://www.robvanderwoude.com/vbstech_internet_download.php

Rob mentions an even better method that requires X-HTTP from http://www.xstandard.com/en/documentation/xhttp/

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