Linux/Unix Cron Job Hhelp with file handling

[smudger]

I am looking to run a cron job which will simulate a 'post' request (such as http://wxr.herenow.com/datapage.asp?...t_ip=hagsfd)to a remote website, which will return a CSV file which I then need to save on my web server to be accessed and parsed at a later date by a php script.

Can anybody help?

[twistedcranium]

Hello there smudger!

as far as the 'post' request, maybe wget has something that you can use

http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html

[smudger]

Hi

Thanks

I figured it out with trial and error.

I created a php file with a require with the complete path and post data for the external dynamic page, then called the php script and dumped the output to a file on host.

This works great.

Thanks for the page link I will check it out also.

[twistedcranium]

Originally Posted by smudger

I figured it out with trial and error.

This is the method that I seem to learn things quicker by using it. Break it until it works!