Hi Friends,

I am using wget to download files from a HTTPS site.My command goes as below. I have used * as wildcard to denote anything can be there between underscore and ".". Please advise on how to solve this.

/usr/sfw/bin/wget --no-check-certificate --user=LTSTSSB --password=pass -O temp.txt https://234.123.432.33:444/Reporting/File-To-Get_*.xml

Please advise if you require further information.

Many Thanks,
Mohan

No expert here, but a quick scan of the wget man page seems to show that globbing wildcards only work with the ftp protocol. You'll probably have to find another way to generate a list of files to attempt to download and feed that to wget. You might also check out some other downloading programs like curl or httrack.

But I wonder if the limitation might not be in the http/s protocol itself. I don't think it allows clients to directly retrieve a list of all the files available on the server (or at least I've never seen anything like that...someone correct me if I'm wrong). If that's correct, then the only likely option would be to try all possible name combinations in a brute-force type of search.