> From: Bill Steele <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: URL Access Scripting syntax > > 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. I began development of an app called "theArchivist" before OS-X, and then ported it from Dialog Director to Project Builder/XCode and Interface Builder. I vaguely remember occasional problems with UAS, but the current version (which I just rebuilt in XCode 2.0) still works great and the core URL Access reference is this ... (the long line'll prob'ly wrap) tell application "URL Access Scripting" set x to download this_url to file (local_filepath) replacing yes without progress and unpacking end tell "local_filepath" is a text string giving the (HFS-style) path to which the file from "this_url" (a fully qualified URL as a text string) is to be stored. Also, the tell is inside a "with timeout ..." block, which is in a try that handles 404 failures, etc. It is important that the local_path (all parts but the file) exists before you do this. Aside from that, UAS seems to work fine (for me, YMMV. UAS doesn't have a golden reputation -- as hinted by the other responses so far, but I found it before I found curl, so there you have it...) -Brian Johnson, Dept of Architecture, University of Washington, Seattle