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New project - we need to be able to periodically download a text file from a remote site not our own and save it somewhere on our webserver Let's call it
http://www.somesite/someDir/thisfile.txt.
Eventually some Z/OS mainframe process will need this file as input into a mainframe DB2 table load process. For that reason I am posting in both the ASP and DB2 Forums this one time(hopefully).

What are the options for doing this via Classic ASP? I am thinking in the back of my mind that this will require using the XMLHTTP object and perhaps the stream object.

FTP is not an option, as the site where the text file resides is a government site and it looks as though manual download is the only option.

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New project - we need to be able to periodically download a text file from a remote site not our own and save it somewhere on our webserver Let's call it
http://www.somesite/someDir/thisfile.txt.
Eventually some Z/OS mainframe process will need this file as input into a mainframe DB2 table load process. For that reason I am posting in both the ASP and DB2 Forums this one time(hopefully).

What are the options for doing this via Classic ASP? I am thinking in the back of my mind that this will require using the XMLHTTP object and perhaps the stream object.

FTP is not an option, as the site where the text file resides is a government site and it looks as though manual download is the only option.

Any thoughts most appreciated,

fv
Manual download, what do you mean by manual download? In almost all cases, if you can do it manually, you can do it programatically. I personally have a section of my site download a file nightly through cron and processes it through a C program that in turn inserts it into the database.
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Manual download, what do you mean by manual download? In almost all cases, if you can do it manually, you can do it programatically. I personally have a section of my site download a file nightly through cron and processes it through a C program that in turn inserts it into the database.


Manual download - actually going to the site and clicking a download link. This is ASP on IIS - was able to get working using the MS XMLHTTP object and save as a text file on the
server. Maybe from the Z/OS side they can FTP the file from the webserver and run a load utility on it.

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Well, depending on what operating system they are running on it, you could see if there is a suitable wget utility that could be used.
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