Using Wget As A Client

[pfranz]

First off, not sure which channel to post this in. Apologies if this one is incorrect.

 

I'm trying to write a .bat file to update from my server using wget (a port to Windows).

 

Normal login would be something like "ftp://user:pass@****/" but since the shared servers force the usernames to be "user@****" there becomes a problem and wget gets confused (i tried googling and only found one response suggesting using hex).

 

well, I tried hex. something like, "ftp://user%40mydomain%2Ecom:password@****" While this works pasting in my webbrowser, not with wget.

 

NOTE: I'm using a Win32 port of wget in WinXP (I hope it's not an error with the port because I'd feel really silly for asking here)

[TCH-Bruce]

What are you wanting to do with wget?

 

You can create macros using CuteFTP to do repetitive things.

 

Moving to better forum for organization.

[pfranz]

There's an app that I use on multiple computers and I write scripts for it. I'd like to have a central place (my website) where I can sync everything when the app starts. I believe wget should do the job nicely, but I'm looking for anything I can get that done easily from a command line.

 

I dont have CuteFTP

[pfranz]

I tried wget in linux with the same style login (ftp://user%40mydomain%2Ecom:password@****) and it worked. So one problem is the windows port doesn't support special characters correctly... i cant seem to find a different port that will. Any suggestions??

 

I've found alternatives of wget for linux, unfortunately nothing really like it for win.

[borfast]

Probably silly question but have you tried the Windows port with the regular URL?

[pfranz]

Yeah, i did. The extra @ and period confuse it as well.

 

I did get a response from an author of a port and here's a summary of the email.

I know the windows port of wget has quite a history of mangling up urls (and filenames) with escapes in them

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Or actually - are you calling this from a batch file perhaps? You do realize that %1,%2 ... %9, %0 are batch parameters right, and are replaced as such?  If that were the case, use something like %%40 instead of %40

 

Turns out that was my problem. I was running it as a batch file

 

Thanks for the assistance.