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If you have to download a file from the Internet on a Windows server, can certainly use the browser. But if the browser is rendering the file instead of downloading them, you may have to use the curl command which is already pre-installed on most Windows servers. Just open the command line. Here’s the the curl command to download a file.
curl.exe --output index.txt --url https://website.domain/index.txt |
curl.exe --output index.txt --url https://website.domain/index.txt
Here’s a quick way to start a web server using Python (not recommended for production).
If you want to use python3, you may have to use explicitly use python3.
Check what versions you have first.
python --version python3 --version |
python --version python3 --version
Start web server using port 8080 in the current directory.
python -m http.server 8080 |
python -m http.server 8080
If you want an alternate directory, use this -d option.
python -m http.server 8080 -d /tmp |
python -m http.server 8080 -d /tmp
It’s a great tool for quick downloads.
Here’s how to download/upload files using gcloud compute scp.
Make sure you are authenticated.
gcloud auth login |
gcloud auth login
How to download.
gcloud compute scp --recurse your-server:/home/username/yaml.tar.gz . \ --project your-project-id \ --zone us-central1-a \ --internal-ip |
gcloud compute scp --recurse your-server:/home/username/yaml.tar.gz . \ --project your-project-id \ --zone us-central1-a \ --internal-ip
How to upload.
gcloud compute scp --recurse yaml.tar.gz your-server:/home/username/ \ --project your-project-id \ --zone us-central1-a \ --internal-ip |
gcloud compute scp --recurse yaml.tar.gz your-server:/home/username/ \ --project your-project-id \ --zone us-central1-a \ --internal-ip