Question

I would like to import a file located with http protocol into mysql.

I tried it in cmd:

    C:\Users\Me>mysql -u root -p grroo_dev < http://subversion.assembla.com/svn/
mine/DB/dump.sql

Assembla requires username and password.

However I get:

The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

Is it possible to do it?

Answer 1

The command line interpreter doesn’t support HTTP URLs. You need to download the resource first, and load it next. If you have wget, for example:

C:\Users\Me>wget http://yourusername:[e-mail]/svn/mine/DB/dump.sql  
C:\Users\Me>mysql -u root -p grroo_dev < dump.sql

Note that you need to replace yourusername and yourpassword with your actual username and password that you have for that site.