download as

This command downloads a file from a URL and allows you to rename it. After downloading, the file is saved in a folder named __Download relative to the local folder of the site that issued the download as command.

This command, when accompanied by a continue if with a sha1 value, allows the file to be pre-fetched.

Syntax

download as <name> <url>

Where name is a simple filename, without special characters or path delimiters. If the name violates any of the following rules, the download command will fail:

• Name must be 32 characters or less.
• Name must only be composed of ASCII characters a-z, A-Z, 0-9, -, _, and non-leading periods.

Examples

Download the prog555.exe file from the specified folder on the web site, saves the downloaded file to the action site __Download folder and renames it to myprog.exe.

download as myprog.exe http://www.website.com/update/prog555.exe

Downloads the specified file, renames it patch1 and continues only if the size and sha1 are correct.

download as patch1 http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/some-update.exe
continue if {(size of it = 813160 and sha1 of it ="92c643875dda80022b3ce3f1ad580f62704b754f") of file "patch1" of folder "__Download"}

Notes

Relevance substitution is not performed on the download action command lines. This is because these actions are scanned by other components that deliver the downloads, and these other components run on different machines which do not share those client's evaluation context. This restriction, however, allows BigFix to prefetch downloads through a relay hierarchy to the clients.