Downloading without user intervention

[mikestan]

I need to be able to download an icon file to the local drive. (local permissions won't be a problem)

I have a file (eg

http://www.a-site.com/pics/icon.ico

) And I need to place it locally in (eg C:\Program Files\myscript\icon.ico)

i want to use a script to do it all for the user autamically based on their form submission. I have the script up and running with the form submission. All communicating with the client but I can't find a way to download this icon without the "Save/Open" box appearing. The box isn't the issue rather the place where the illiterate user dumps the file. So I want to ensure the icon file is placed in the correct location (locally)

 

[tsuji]

Hello mikestan,

This is how it can be done.

const adTypeBinary=1
const adSaveCreateOverwrite=2
const adModeReadWrite=3

filespec="C:\Program Files\myscript\icon.ico"

surl="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.a-site.com/pics/icon.ico"[/URL]
strgt=filespec

set ohttp=createobject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
ohttp.open "GET", surl, false, "", ""
ohttp.send

set adostream=createobject("adodb.stream")
with adostream
	.type=adTypeBinary
	.mode=adModeReadWrite
	.open
	.write ohttp.responsebody
	.savetofile strgt, adSaveCreateOverwrite
	.close
end with
set adostream=nothing : set ohttp=nothing
wscript.echo "done"

(No error control implemented.)

regards - tsuji