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# 1  
Old 10-12-2007
how to browse a web site using script

hi guys,

ok this script, i am trying to browse a http site and store the output in a text file ...

when i run the script , i get a http compatibility error.

does any1 have a good solution to contact a http server and save the html in a text file.. i know the result comes with html tags.
Thank you
# 2  
Old 10-12-2007
you can try to use wget
# 3  
Old 10-12-2007
wget is the way to go but telnet would work for simple stuff.
# 4  
Old 10-12-2007
also lynx

you can also use lynx if you wanted.

Code:
lynx -source -accept_all_cookies "http://www.foo.com">>file.html

if you wanted...
# 5  
Old 10-15-2007
thank you guys,

but the issue is i am workin on aix machine and i dont have wget tools installed. and installin wget is not an option. i am pasting my script here .. plz have a look at it ..

Code:
WEBSERVER=aix85
WEBPORT=9088
URLDIR=/DmMethods/servlet/DoMethod
TOFILE=result.txt
echo "before telnet"
telnet $WEBSERVER $WEBPORT |&   # Open pipe to web server
echo "After telnet"
IFS=~
read -p HEAD1 2>/dev/null                    # Ignore telnet headers
read -p HEAD1 2>/dev/null
read -p HEAD1 2>/dev/null
print -p "GET $URLDIR HTTP /1.1" 2>/dev/null    # Send HTTP request to server
print -p "" 2>/dev/null
read -p LINE 2>/dev/null
echo ${LINE}
if [ "${LINE}" != "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" -a "${LINE}" != "HTTP/1.1 200 OK" ]; then
  echo "ERROR: Invalid response from Web Server: ${LINE}"
  exit 8
fi
while [ "${LINE}" != "" ]                    # Skip HTTP Headers
do
  read -p LINE 2>/dev/null
done
while read -p LINE 2>/dev/null               # Process web page contents
do
  echo "${LINE}" >> result1.txt
done

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