Re: [LUG] Download script

[alan <amd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2004.12.13 10:52 Rob Beard wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have a question that isn't entirely Linux related but I thought
> maybe
> someone might know of something that would do the job...
>
> Basicly after getting my broadband connection, I've been trying to
> download a
> couple of ISO's (Fedora Core 3).  At the moment my connection is
> running at
> 2Mbit (thanks to Eclipse Internet's 1 month free flexing), and I'm
> finding
> ISO's download really quickly.

Hi Rob,

further to the other replies, if you do the wget method, it has a flag 
for backgrounding, -b to be exact, so you can get away without the 
nohup or &

You could use the system library in perl to do this

ie.

#!/usr/bin/perl

require 'cgi-lib.pl';
$mydirectory ="/home/whatever/";	# change this to the correct 
path

if(&ReadParse(*in)){
        chdir $mydirectory;
        system "wget -b $in('url')";
        print "content-type: text/html\n\n";
        print "getting your file now";
}else{
print "content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Sorry, you didn't enter a url";
}


Just point a web form at this script, making sure the text field on the 
form is named url
or append ?url=http://www.whatever.com/    to the address of your perl 
script.

You do need the cgi-lib.pl library though for this to run.

alan


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