download now as

Downloads the file indicated by the URL and allows you to rename it. After downloading, the file is saved in a folder named __Download (the folder name begins with two underscores) relative to the local folder of the Fixlet Site that issued the download now as command.

If the download fails, the action script terminates.

For instance, consider the command: 

download now as intro.txt ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/deskapps/readme.txt

The action example above immediately downloads the readme.txt file from the Microsoft site and automatically saves it in the local __Download folder as intro.txt.

Syntax

download now as <name> <url>

Where name is a simple filename, without special characters or path delimiters. If the name violates any of the following rules, the download command will fail:

Name must be 32 characters or less.

Name must only be composed of ASCII characters a-z, A-Z, 0-9, -, _, and non-leading periods.

Here url is the complete URL of the specified file.

Examples

download now as myprog.exe http://www.website.com/update/prog555.exe

Immediately downloads the prog555.exe file from the specified folder on the web site, directs the downloaded file to the action site "__Download" folder and names it myprog.exe.

download now as patch2 http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update
 /v3-19990518/cabpool/q310507_2f3c5854999b7c58272a661d30743abca15caf5c.exe 
continue if {(size of it = 845416 and sha1 of it = 
 "c964d4fd345b6e5fd73c2235ec75079b34e9b3d2") of file "patch2.exe" of folder 
 "__Download"}

Immediately downloads the specified file from the web site, directs the downloaded file to the action site __Download folder and names it patch2. The action continues only if the size and sha1 are correct.

Note: Relevance substitution is NOT performed on the download now as action command lines. This is because these actions are scanned by other components that deliver the downloads and these other components run on different machines which do not share those client's evaluation context. This restriction, however, allows the IBM BigFix to prefetch downloads through a relay hierarchy to the clients.

Version 6.0 and above -- Windows Only