Name
get
Synopsis
Retrieves a file from a URL.
Attributes
-
dest
(all, File, Y) The local name to store the file as.
-
ignoreerrors
(all, boolean, N) If
true
, log errors but do not abort the build. Defaults tofalse
.-
src
(all, URL, Y) The URL of the remote file to retrieve.
-
usetimestamp
(all, boolean, N) If true, download only the file if the remote timestamp is newer than the local file. Works only with the HTTP protocol. When the file is downloaded, its timestamp is set to the timestamp on the remote machine. Defaults to
false
.-
verbose
(all, boolean, N) When
true
, display a “.” for every 100 KB of data retrieved. Defaults tofalse
.
Content
None.
Example Usage
Get the O’Reilly home page:
<get src="http://www.oreilly.com/" dest="${builddir}/oreilly_home.html"/>
If behind a firewall, specify proxy server configuration using the
ANT_OPTS
environment variable (as explained in
Chapter 2) before running Ant.
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