John Rennie John Rennie 7, 1 1 gold badge 21 21 silver badges 34 34 bronze badges. I second migrating to PowerShell if at all possible. While it isn't a direct answer to the original question - in most cases it would be the right path forward. XMLHTTP" is more elegant, unfortunately is not very portable since the version of the object changes a lot throughout the versions and updates of Windows.
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Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Helping communities build their own LTE networks. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Linked 2. Related 1. Hot Network Questions. Downloading files is something really basic today, because it is really hard to find someone that does not have internet access.
You may want to do an automatic update for your program, or to make download of a file only if a user need a specific function from your code, decreasing download of you script. The COM technology allows another program access resources from another program.
It is a Microsoft Technology and a really useful one. We can access Active Directory with it and add users and groups without opening the Management Console. We can write and save a document in Microsoft Word in command line. And the better of all: It does not matter the programming language that i am using. The programming language only needs to support COM access and running in a Windows environment.
COM functions is better because, in general, we do not need to redistribute any 3rd party code because Windows already have it. NET instead. We need to show the command line prompt to show progress It can't be viewed on the same window from script.
Read WGET documentation! If you need to read the header from page or "Check local file version [ WGET support this function natively, but we can implement it in. If you do not need to support Windows 9x, choose the 1st one. If we do not do that, our script will return "Access is denied. I really recommends WinHTTP, only if you do not care that your script will not run in Windows Server versions without you ask for user to change Security Settings, making the server less secure.
Then, we define two strings: strLink , that is the link that we will download, and strSaveTo , where file will be saved. After that, we change the actual folder to the folder where we want to save the file. WGet saves the file on the actual folder that we are using, than it will save the file there.
Window mode. Stream" objStream. Open objStream. Write xmlhttp. Exists "h" Then Wscript. Echo "Usage: http-download. Echo "Download Complete. Improve this question. Kausty Kausty 2 2 gold badges 10 10 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Mihai Iorga Ansgar Wiechers Ansgar Wiechers k 23 23 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.
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