.: Binky:url

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URL [-flags] <url>

By using the URL command, you can have a web page or file on the net transmitted to you. It will automatically encode binary files, and automatically split large files if you use the SPLIT command.

The [-flags] parameter allow you to get the source of a web page with -s and you can get only the text of a web page with -t. The -t flag will attempt to change all HTML code and weird symbols into their text counterparts. Files retrieved with the -t flag should never be encoded -- e-mail the admin if a page is. The -t flag is very useful if you intend to get the file through a pager or another text-only medium.

A few examples to help get you started are below.

URL http://www.web.site.com/filename.html
URL http://boas.anthro.mankato.msus.edu/~binky/
URL ftp://site.name/directory/directory/file.name
URL ftp://user:password@site.name/directory/file.name

If you use the "user:password" approach, and you want to log into an anonymous FTP site that requires your email address, and you want to use my@email.address, then change the @ into %40 to give you:

URL ftp://anonymous:my%40email.address@site.name/directory/file.name

Below are some examples for using the -s and -t flags.

URL -s http://www.web.site.com/filename.html
Sends you the HTML source of the web page
URL -t http://boas.anthro.mankato.msus.edu/~binky/
Sends you just the text of the web page
URL -st http://www.yahoo.com
Sends you the source of the web page, but also formats
it so that it is all text
URL -ts http://www.altavista.com
Same as above -- parameter order does not matter
URL -st http://www.files.com/filename.zip
If you get a binary file, -s and -t have no affect on the output.