Deploy dynamic file to client

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There are several ways to do dynamic downloads. Each has pros and cons and can be useful depending on the situation. I’ve used all of them.

  1. ‘download now as’ - If you use this option, it will instruct the Bigfix client to use a native actionscript command to do the download, however it will go directly to the requested url, bypassing the relay infrastructure. You can do relevance substitution in the url if desired. See this post for an example.
  2. WGET - This is a versatile utility that allows many download options.
  3. CURL - Also another good utility with several different options.

Choose whichever way best suits your situation. I find when using WGET or CURL it is helpful to embed it into dynamically generated script where I can do relevance substitution.

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