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st: RE: download a file from a secure website
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject
st: RE: download a file from a secure website
Date
Fri, 4 Feb 2011 19:15:39 +0000
I've always used -copy-. That's at the heart of -ssc- which was written to do this for a particular website. But I've never used it under Windows 7.
Nick
[email protected]
Dimitriy V. Masterov
Is there a way to download a file from a secure website using Stata?
I tried copy "https://www.XYZ..."; data.txt, but that generates an
unknown network protocol error.
I also tried using wget as described here
(http://www.andrewdyck.com/download-and-unzip-data-files-from-stata/),
but that method appears to fail for any sort of website.
I am using Stata 11.1 on 64-bit Windows 7. I use a proxy to access the
internet.
I am not doing anything shady if that is a concern.
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