http web request from batch file

Question

I need to execute a http web request from Plesk's Task Scheduler (using shared hosting on Windows/ASP.NET; no Powershell, whatsoever). Thought about using a batch file for this.

Is there an easy way to do this?

Answer 1

You can try using wget for Windows.

Answer 2

What are you allowed to install? Could you use wget for Windows for instance? Or write a .NET executable which does everything you need it to using WebClient or HttpWebRequest?

Answer 3

Take a look at curl. It's a cross-platform command-line tool for making web requests (similar to wget if you've used that before). You should be able to call that from your batch file.

Answer 4

I would suggest either wget or curl. Win32 versions are available for both.

Answer 5

The "curl" utiliity which is basically a command line wrapper for the wonderful libcurl library will handle almost any http request or response. Its freely available for free.