Hi David, On Saturday 28 January 2017 14:02:16 David Wright wrote: > On Sat 28 Jan 2017 at 20:24:39 (+0100), Michael Luecke wrote: > > On 01/28/2017 08:10 PM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > >I would like to download a large csv file from a JavaScript intensive web > > >page. My client system has not enough storage for the file, but if I could > > >compress the file on the fly, things would work, since the file has a huge > > >compression ratio. > > > > If you could fetch the URL, then use wget or curl to do this: > > > > wget -O- http://www.example.com | bzip2 >your.file.bz2 > > curl http://www.example.com | bzip2 >your.file.bz2 > > Yes, that's very straightforward. However, the problem often > arises that wget (at least) can't download a file that the > browser can. I suspect the phrase "JavaScript intensive web page" > is meant to convey that situation. So further advice would > be welcome. >
yes, you exactly got my point. When I copy the download link from firefox, I get: rd@mohot:~/Downloads$ curl 'http://192.168.0.52/download?action=dl&fmt=csv&start=2016.1.24%200:0:0.0&end=2017.1.25%2022:22:8.575' <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"/> <title>Error 405 HTTP method GET is not supported by this URL</title> </head> <body><h2>HTTP ERROR 405</h2> <p>Problem accessing /download. Reason: <pre> HTTP method GET is not supported by this URL</pre></p><hr /><i><small>Powered by Jetty://</small></i><br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> </body> </html> rd@mohot:~/Downloads$ Kind regards Rainer -- Rainer Dorsch http://bokomoko.de/
