script to upload from URL

[Moish]

wget2web

On 14/12/2011 03:32, Amos Shapira wrote:
> 2011/12/14 David Ronkin <dronkin at gmail.com <mailto:dronkin at gmail.com>>
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>     Call it asynchronously with ajax or jquery get/post - while waiting
>     for response you can print whatever you what.
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> I second that - that's, for instance, how Google's auto-completion (of
> addresses in gmail, search terms in search etc) works - it sets a
> background JavaScript thread which runs every second in the background,
> reads the input field's value and submit it to the server for process if
> it changed (and pulls the results, of course). You can skip the "check
> input field value" part in your case. There must be some JavaScript
> libraries which can already help you there (http://jquery.com/ is the
> first suspect, but there must be many more lying around).
>
> Two less related points:
>
> 1. Make sure you verify the URL for any hockery-pockery (e.g. that it's
> a genuine legitimate "http(s)://" URL and not, for instance
> "file:///etc/passwd" or trying to break out of the shell parameter
> quoting to inject its own shell commands or encoded javascript that can
> be used for cross-site-scripting :)
>
> 2. While I'm looking for work, I might be available for such small jobs
> (I'm not a JavaScript Guru, more of a server-side guy, but should be
> able to do something like this with some research).
>
> --Amos
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>     2011/12/13 Hetz Ben Hamo <hetzbh at gmail.com <mailto:hetzbh at gmail.com>>
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>         Hi,
>
>         I've written a simple bash script to upload a file from a remote
>         server as a CGI script (yes, I know, I should use another
>         language, but it's just a proof-of-concept).
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>         It goes like this: A simple HTML page gives the user a text line
>         to enter a URL and "upload" button, which submits the data using
>         POST to a bash script (I use the proccgi for transferring the
>         values).
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>         The scripts fetches the URL and launches wget to grab the file,
>         rename it and move it to a specific directory.
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>         So far, so good. The script works well.
>
>         But I have one issue with it: those files are pretty big (1-3
>         GB) and wget doesn't show anything while it uploads - in the web
>         browser. I tried using some redirect tricks, but it still
>         doesn't show anything on the screen. I can redirect the output
>         to a text file and show it after the upload, but it defeats the
>         purpose of showing some activity.
>
>         So my question: how can I make WGET (or CURL) show anything on
>         my browser while it downloads the file (uploading it to the server)?
>
>         Thanks,
>         Hetz
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