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disco

disco(1)						      General Commands Manual							  disco(1)

NAME

       disco - Mono's Web Service Discovery Tool

SYNOPSIS

       disco [options] url

DESCRIPTION

       disco is a tool for discovering web services and for retireving the documents that describe those services.

       url is the location of a DISCO document, which includes a list of WSDL documents, XML schemas and references to other DISCO documents.

       disco downloads the DISCO document and all referenced documents (unless the -nosave option is specified), and saves them to disk.

OPTIONS

       The following options are available:

       -nologo
	      Supress the startup logo.

       -nosave
	      Do not save the discovered documents to disk. The default is to save the documents.

       -o:directory , -out:directory
	      The directory where to save the discovered documents.  By default, documents are saved in the current directory.

       -u:username , -user:username
	      The user name to use when connecting to the server.

       -p:password , -password:password
	      The password to use when connecting to the server.

       -d:domain , -domain:domain
	      The domain to use when connecting to the server.

       -proxy:url
	      The url of the proxy server to use for http requests.

       -proxyusername:username
	      The user name to use when connecting to the proxy.

       -proxypassword:password
	      The password to use when connecting to the proxy.

       -proxydomain:domain
	      The domain to use when connecting to the proxy.

AUTHORS

       Lluis Sanchez Gual (lluis@ximian.com)

LICENSE

       disco is released under the terms of the GNU GPL.

SEE ALSO

       wsdl(1), soapsuds(1), mono(1), mcs(1)

																	  disco(1)

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