Re: [LUG] Download script

[Alex Charrett <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Rob Beard:

> I guess I'm looknig for something like a web based download manager.  My 
> knowledge of PHP at the moment is very sketchy (i.e. non existent!) so I was
> someone might know something that would do the job?

For a really quick, dirty and not very elegant bit of perl to do the job:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI qw(param);

$url=param("url");

system("cd /writeable/dir;nohup wget $url < /dev/null &");

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
print "Now downloading $url\n";


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