On 7/5/07 at 1:45 PM, Bill Steele <[log in to unmask]> spake thusly:
>Every example I see goes like this:
>
>set filepath to "disk:folder:filename"
>tell application "URL Access Scripting"
> activate
> download "http://blahdiblah.html" to filepath
>end tell
>
>I think I've even done it that way, although I can't find an example in my library.
>
>But it gives me "URL Access Scripting got an error: Some data was the wrong type." I've tried
>
>to alias filepath
>to file filepath
>to file alias filepath
>
>and probably a few others.
>
>Or is it complaining about the contents of the page it's
>downloading? I've tried a couple of different pages with the
>same result.
You would probably have better luck with a shell script using
"curl". URL Access Scripting has always seemed a bit flakey to me.
<x-man-page://curl> or in Terminal - man curl
JBS
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