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Sane · Nov 7th, 2007, 11:53 PM

There are operations for accessing an external web page internally. You could do this with raw sockets even if you have to (Connect to the server, Request the image, Receive the image, Cast some black magic).

Make sure to use the correct header information to request the image (GET /myimage.jpg HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: mywebsite.com\r\nContent-type: image/jpeg\r\n\r\n), and then use your file IO functions (Open File, Write to File, What the hell does this do?) with a binary write stream to save the image locally.

Then, of course, automate this with an hourly crontab.

Nov 7th, 2007, 11:53 PM	#6
Sane Programming Guru Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Ontario Posts: 1,885 Rep Power: 5	Re: Downloading an external image and saving it to disk There are operations for accessing an external web page internally. You could do this with raw sockets even if you have to (Connect to the server, Request the image, Receive the image, Cast some black magic). Make sure to use the correct header information to request the image (GET /myimage.jpg HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: mywebsite.com\r\nContent-type: image/jpeg\r\n\r\n), and then use your file IO functions (Open File, Write to File, What the hell does this do?) with a binary write stream to save the image locally. Then, of course, automate this with an hourly crontab. Last edited by Sane; Nov 8th, 2007 at 12:06 AM.