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I need to download a file through http from the command line on a windows server 2008. I am looking for something like wget, but it must be a built-in tool.

Is there such a tool?

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Is PowerShell a built-in tool for you? – mailq Aug 15 '11 at 8:16
Yes, PowerShell is ok. – steenhulthin Aug 15 '11 at 8:28

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If you have PowerShell installed...

(New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile("http://icanhazip.com/","icanhazip.txt")
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Note for those not familiar with this call. The first argument is to the file to download, the second is what to save it as locally. – John Apr 11 '12 at 14:43
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you use curl also: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html

something like

curl -O http://domain.com/file.gz

should work

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curl is nice, but not built-in. – steenhulthin Aug 15 '11 at 8:52
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No wget equivalent that is built-in/default across Windows.

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