Hi.

Okay this is what I am wanting to do. I wish to download files to my webhost without having to download then upload to it.

Okay now that I have said that, I know all about Putty, it works very well but what I am needing is something like a web-browser within my webhost which I can then use to login to forums, and sites I visit so I can download files which I need to be logged in to do.

From what I've noticed Putty will not do this.

So what do you folks think?

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Re: Downloading files to my Webhost server.
By: Mikesla to All on Fri Jun 24 2011 01:12 pm

Okay this is what I am wanting to do. I wish to download files to my webhost without having to download then upload to it.

Okay now that I have said that, I know all about Putty, it works very well but what I am needing is something like a web-browser within my webhost which I can then use to login to forums, and sites I visit so I can
download files which I need to be logged in to do.

There's a difference between a webhost and a virtual private server. You would use Putty to connect to a terminal shell on a remote server. Webhosting providers do not provide you with a shell, and so Putty has nothing to connect to.

Assuming you have just a webhost, I'm not immediately aware of anything that could help you remotely log in. In fact, the "web" these days is designed to specifically disallow that for security. Your best bet is to download everything you need, and archive it into one ZIP file. Your provider should have a tool that allows you to upload and automatically unzip. If not, search around, there are some PHP tools available that you can install.

If you do have a VPS, there are various ways to log in to a site from within the shell, assuming it's a *nix shell. I suggest installing "elinks", it's a pretty user friendly text web browser. You should be able to log into most sites with it and download what you need.



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Re: Downloading files to my Webhost server.
By: Mikesla to All on Fri Jun 24 2011 13:12:45

Okay this is what I am wanting to do. I wish to download files to my webhos without having to download then upload to it.

There's a protocol I know of called FXP that uses FTP to directly transfer files from one server to another, but I don't think it's all that common.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_eXchange_Protocol

Nightfox

Re: Downloading files to my Webhost server.
By: Mikesla to All on Fri Jun 24 2011 01:12 pm

Okay this is what I am wanting to do. I wish to download files to my webhost without having to download then upload to it.

Okay now that I have said that, I know all about Putty, it works very well but what I am needing is something like a web-browser within my webhost which I can then use to login to forums, and sites I visit so I can
download files which I need to be logged in to do.

From what I've noticed Putty will not do this.

So what do you folks think?

Well, you gave very little information regarding your setup, but if you are using a linux/unix webhost (which, if you're using putty to connect to it, is at least somewhat more likely than it being a windows host), you could always use your normal web browser, copy links to files you want downloaded, and then use the program "wget" on your webhost (via a putty ssh connection) to instruct your server to download the files. You should also be able to script this process, if, say, you want to download a whole bunch of different files, using a text file list of the links to said files. And I'm sure my overview doesn't tell you exactly how to do it, but the manual page on that matter should do the job ("man wget" should bring that up on your webhost...if it doesn't, it's not installed, and not knowing your architecture/OS, I can't be of much help there...though the manual page should also be findable with a web search).

Anyway, hope that gets you somewhere. Good luck.

Cykros


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Re: Downloading files to my Webhost server.
By: Mikesla to All on Fri Jun 24 2011 13:12:45

Okay this is what I am wanting to do. I wish to download files to my webhos without having to download then upload to it.

There's a protocol I know of called FXP that uses FTP to directly transfer files from one server to another, but I don't think it's all that common.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_eXchange_Protocol

Nightfox

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This is what I use

http://www.flashfxp.com/

Hope it can help you.

BlueKnight

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Re: Re: Downloading files to my Webhost server.
By: Blueknight to Nightfox on Sat Jun 25 2011 18:42:49

This is what I use
http://www.flashfxp.com/
Hope it can help you.

Help me with what? I've used FlashFXP before, but I haven't had a use for it in a long time...

Nightfox

Dreamer wrote to Mikesla <=-

Re: Downloading files to my Webhost server.
By: Mikesla to All on Fri Jun 24 2011 01:12 pm

Okay this is what I am wanting to do. I wish to download files to my webhost without having to download then upload to it.

Okay now that I have said that, I know all about Putty, it works very well but what I am needing is something like a web-browser within my webhost which I can then use to login to forums, and sites I visit so I can
download files which I need to be logged in to do.

There's a difference between a webhost and a virtual private server.
You would use Putty to connect to a terminal shell on a remote server. Webhosting providers do not provide you with a shell, and so Putty has nothing to connect to.

Assuming you have just a webhost, I'm not immediately aware of anything that could help you remotely log in. In fact, the "web" these days is designed to specifically disallow that for security. Your best bet is
to download everything you need, and archive it into one ZIP file.
Your provider should have a tool that allows you to upload and automatically unzip. If not, search around, there are some PHP tools available that you can install.

If you do have a VPS, there are various ways to log in to a site from within the shell, assuming it's a *nix shell. I suggest installing "elinks", it's a pretty user friendly text web browser. You should be able to log into most sites with it and download what you need.

Hi Dreamer.

Okay thanks. I guess I'll stick with putty for now. I did take a brief look at elinks but that isn't for me.

Thanks again Dreamer for the info.

Cheers.
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Nightfox wrote to Mikesla <=-

Re: Downloading files to my Webhost server.
By: Mikesla to All on Fri Jun 24 2011 13:12:45

Okay this is what I am wanting to do. I wish to download files to my webhos without having to download then upload to it.

There's a protocol I know of called FXP that uses FTP to directly
transfer files from one server to another, but I don't think it's all
that common.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_eXchange_Protocol

Nightfox

Hi Nightfox.

I'll take a peek at it. Thanks.

Cheers.

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Cykros wrote to Mikesla <=-

Re: Downloading files to my Webhost server.
By: Mikesla to All on Fri Jun 24 2011 01:12 pm

Okay this is what I am wanting to do. I wish to download files to my webhost without having to download then upload to it.

Okay now that I have said that, I know all about Putty, it works very well but what I am needing is something like a web-browser within my webhost which I can then use to login to forums, and sites I visit so I can
download files which I need to be logged in to do.

From what I've noticed Putty will not do this.

So what do you folks think?

Well, you gave very little information regarding your setup, but if you are using a linux/unix webhost (which, if you're using putty to connect
to it, is at least somewhat more likely than it being a windows host),
you could always use your normal web browser, copy links to files you
want downloaded, and then use the program "wget" on your webhost (via a putty ssh connection) to instruct your server to download the files.
You should also be able to script this process, if, say, you want to download a whole bunch of different files, using a text file list of
the links to said files. And I'm sure my overview doesn't tell you exactly how to do it, but the manual page on that matter should do the
job ("man wget" should bring that up on your webhost...if it doesn't,
it's not installed, and not knowing your architecture/OS, I can't be of much help there...though the manual page should also be findable with a web search).

Anyway, hope that gets you somewhere. Good luck.

Cykros

Hi Cykros.

Putty works fine, the unfortunate thing about trying to transfer files say from a website that requires you to be logged in before you start downloading files is the problem I am facing. Using Putty, and wget protocol works very well, the unfortunate side effect is that even if I clip, and paste into putty the game download link even with myself being logged in at the time, the IP of course is different, and the website recognizes this, and will not allow the download to take place.

This is why if there was a script of some sort which can be used on my webhost server, which then I can loggin from my webshost, and transfer the files than all of my problems be solved, and I don't think that there is anything made yet to do this.

Now, My website is run with Joomla 1.5x, and I am asking if anyone here knows of a backend script which could do this?

Anyway, I can hope I suppose. :)

Cheers.

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Re: Re: Downloading files to my Webhost server.
By: Nightfox to Blueknight on Sun Jun 26 2011 12:12 am

Re: Re: Downloading files to my Webhost server.
By: Blueknight to Nightfox on Sat Jun 25 2011 18:42:49

This is what I use
http://www.flashfxp.com/
Hope it can help you.

Help me with what? I've used FlashFXP before, but I haven't had a use for it in a long time...

The original message was for Mikesla, I believe.


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Re: Re: Downloading files to my Webhost server.
By: Dreamer to Nightfox on Sun Jun 26 2011 09:21:16

Help me with what? I've used FlashFXP before, but I haven't had a use fo it in a long time...

The original message was for Mikesla, I believe.

Then he should have replied to Mikesla rather than me.. :)

Nightfox

Re: Re: Downloading files to my Webhost server.
By: Nightfox to Dreamer on Sun Jun 26 2011 11:10 am

Then he should have replied to Mikesla rather than me.. :)

yep.


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