Thanks SO much. The VB process worked for me. Clearly I need to haunt the Scripts and Tips forum a little more. FWIW: Even using old DOS8.3 file names (no spaces), or using quotes, the script would execute and wget would exit without any files being written. I did not try introducing a wait period b...

First, let me thank you very much for the help you've provided. I have wget, and I can run it from the command line, and it works fine and does indeed work to get web pages from my site. It works without having to be run from the active directory, so it's finding the DLLs it needs. Unfortunately, I ...

So, if it's an Apache setting, why would it serve an html page from my web site, but return that "Forbidden" message when I try to fetch a PHP page? That makes it seem more like a PHP config setting, but I can find none that correspond to this kind of thing. I'll have to look at wget -- but it's imp...

You can see this if you try to hit

http://www.ebookexchange.com/index.php

I'm a principal on that site, and nothing is being (purposefully) done to block any kind of requests, nor is there any PHP configuration setting that I'm aware of that would cause this.

I'm trying to use the HTTPRequest command. The MJT sample code for this function (which sends a query to Google) runs fine from my workstation, as does the use of this function to pull a basic html page from the web server I'm trying to hit. However, when I use HTTPRequest to hit a PHP page on that ...

Excellent! Thanks! That fits the bill perfectly.

I also have a need for this functionality. It does not work using the HTTPRequest command. Does anyone have a work around for this? I'm not above calling IE to accomplish this, though it'd be a bit kludgy to have to do so. I would want to be able to close the IE window I'd just opened if I had to do...