Question

Just what the title says – is it possible to echo the response contents without having to store the file?

I would also settle for being able to throw out the results, so a dest file is not created (on Windows, so no /dev/null).

Answer 1

On windows there are special file called NUL
which has the same function as /dev/null on *nix

(there are also CON, PRN, etc, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_file)

I think it is possible to use this file as the dest param

<get src="http://blahblahblah..." dest="NUL" />

If you want to echo the result to the console, you can use CON as the destination

<get src="http://blahblahblah..." dest="CON" />

I dont know if it is a proper solution in the ant task, but somehow just work.