Joaguim, I think /vsizip/vsicurl/http://path.to/the/file.zip works.
You have to initialize the zip file and remote file handlers using VSIInstallCurlFileHandler() and VSIInstallZipFileHandler() Refer: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/UserDocs/ReadInZip On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Joaquim Luis <jl...@ualg.pt> wrote: > Hi, > > How do we access to a compressed files by URL? We can do that, can't we? > > As an example I try this (on Windows) > > gdalinfo /vsizip/C:\ > http://dds.cr.usgs.gov/srtm/version2_1/SRTM30/w020n90/w020n90.dem.zip > ERROR 4: `/vsizip/C:\ > http://dds.cr.usgs.gov/srtm/version2_1/SRTM30/w020n90/w020n90.dem.zip' > does not exist in the file system, > and is not recognised as a supported dataset name. > > and this > > gdalinfo /vsizip// > http://dds.cr.usgs.gov/srtm/version2_1/SRTM30/w020n90/w020n90.dem.zip > > but the error message is similar. > > The idea is to fetch the data directly into GMT, but first I need to > understand well how it works. > > Thanks > > Joaquim Luis > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > -- Best regards, Chaitanya kumar CH. /tʃaɪθənjə/ /kʊmɑr/ +91-9494447584 17.2416N 80.1426E
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