Http binding and cron

federic0 · December 27, 2015, 5:29pm

Hi,

Is it possible to use the http binding with cron instead of using the refresh rate?

Thanks

watou · December 27, 2015, 5:47pm

There is an open issue to implement this, but it’s not done yet. There are many use cases where this would be helpful.

federic0 · December 27, 2015, 7:24pm

Thanks for the quick reply. Do you know if using curl I can decode a gzipped response?

watou · December 27, 2015, 8:13pm

I don’t see why not! curl is very flexible. If you mean that the content returned is itself a gzip’d file, you can pipe curl to gunzip like curl URL | gunzip > myfile.dat.

federic0 · December 28, 2015, 4:21pm

Thanks @watou, for some reason piping the curl command to gunzip and sending it to a file was not working, I finally did it like this:

cmd = curl@@--compressed@@-m@@10@@" + "-o@@" + file  + "@@-X@@GET@@"  + url
executeCommand(cmd)