[lug] http get from a command line

[Ken Weinert]

Did you try using -source on the command line?

I didn't do extensive testing, but I can grab a .gif file that way.

You do need to redirect the output to the file you want it to go to.

* Steve Pollock (spollock at cisco.com) [010723 17:38]:
> Looking for a utility that will do an HTTP GET from the command line, be able to deal with an http redirect and download a single file. 
> 
> I looked into lynx which will take a URL on the command line but it doesn't seem to want to start without html or text to parse.  That is, if you pass it a filename  ryryry.bin it doesn't recognize as html so it quits.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
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