Question

Is there any power shell command to download file and place at Application Root in Windows Azure start-up task? I have geo location binary file(30Mb)which is downloaded from http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity. I don’t want to include binary file in my project, decided to place in blob storage for faster deployment purpose. I tried to read binary from URL using http://en.googlemaps.subgurim.net/, unfortunately no function to read from URL. So i’m finding the way to download that binary file and place in application root directory.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

maybe this can help:

$object = New-Object Net.WebClient
$url = 'http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz'
$local = "$pwd\GeoLiteCity.dat.gz" #path to save download file
$object.DownloadFile($url, $local)

In this case file is zipped, you need to unzip the dat file.