"Brian Wakem" <no@email.com> wrote in message news:40ffh3F1adq7dU1@individual.net...
> Burma Jones wrote:
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>> I have a MySQL database on my ISP's Linux server. Can anyone tell me if
>> it would be possible to update a specific record remotely without any user
>> interaction? In other words, from a Windows script or batch file do the
>> update without any interaction from myself. I was thinking of passing the
>> update variables in a URL to a PHP script on the server, but that would
>> open a browser window on the client which I don't want to do.
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> perl -MLWP::Simple -e 'get("http://www.mysite.com/myscript.php?a=1&b=2")'
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> Brian Wakem
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Thanks folks for all your suggestions. I like the Perl suggestion best but Perl can't be installed on some of the machines I'm using. I also like Wget but even as small as it is, it still seemed to large for what I need it for. So I found an IIS Resource Kit Tool called TinyGet which does the job and is only 87K. Cheers