Re: st: RE: download a file from a secure website

[Nick cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

Good question. I've not done that that I can remember.

Nick

On 4 Feb 2011, at 19:22, "Dimitriy V. Masterov" <dvmaster@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Nick,
>
> Are you able to grab a file from a secure https site (not just http)
> with copy? I am curious to see if this is Windows issue, a network
> issue, or a Stata issue.
>
> DVM
>
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> > 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
> > n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
> >
> > 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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