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 -- Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. -Henry David Thoreau