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


From   "Dimitriy V. Masterov" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: download a file from a secure website
Date   Fri, 4 Feb 2011 14:22:34 -0500

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 <[email protected]> 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
> [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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