Re: Downloading mystery

2005-11-18 Thread Dave Cragg
On 18 Nov 2005, at 01:53, Bruce A. Pokras wrote: Thanks, Dave, for the mauling. It was well deserved. However, I have been trying to get this to work over a period of several weeks. This was not a "try once and cry for help." This has been a long, drawn out bit of frustration. A couple of

AW: Downloading mystery

2005-11-17 Thread Thomas Fischer
Hi Bruce, > Again, if you substitute "revgourl theURL" in the appropriate place, > you will have the patent showing up in your browser in no time > (figuratively speaking, of course). Any hints for this problem would > be appreciated! this might be unrelated to Revolution. I had problems downl

Re: Downloading mystery

2005-11-17 Thread Bruce A. Pokras
On 17 Nov 2005, at 01:42, Bruce A. Pokras wrote: I am trying to script the downloading of European patents from the European Patent Office's server. They provide a sample URL to use for that purpose, but instead of the patent, I instantly get a zero size file. I've tried it with and without UR

Re: Downloading mystery

2005-11-17 Thread xavier . bury
Bruce, I got this message from their front page... "The server at publications.european-patent-office.org is taking too long to respond." i get timeouts... their web server could be down... cheers Xavier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 17/11/2005 15:19:04: > > On 17 Nov 2005, at 01:42, Bruce A.

Re: Downloading mystery

2005-11-17 Thread Dave Cragg
On 17 Nov 2005, at 01:42, Bruce A. Pokras wrote: I am trying to script the downloading of European patents from the European Patent Office's server. They provide a sample URL to use for that purpose, but instead of the patent, I instantly get a zero size file. I've tried it with and withou

Re: Downloading mystery

2005-11-16 Thread Ken Ray
On 11/16/05 7:42 PM, "Bruce A. Pokras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to script the downloading of European patents from the > European Patent Office's server. They provide a sample URL to use for > that purpose, but instead of the patent, I instantly get a zero size > file. I've tried i

Downloading mystery

2005-11-16 Thread Bruce A. Pokras
I am trying to script the downloading of European patents from the European Patent Office's server. They provide a sample URL to use for that purpose, but instead of the patent, I instantly get a zero size file. I've tried it with and without URLencode. However, scriptiing with revGoURL works f