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me239



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me239 13 Mar 2011, 05:35
Hello everyone! Recently I noticed that Windows lacks a http downloader for it's cmd. Here is a small download utitlity I made in FASM that parses the command line into two parts(URL, output). It also has some error catching capabilities. To make it native, just place it inside the system32 folder.
Code:
format PE console 4.0
include 'win32a.inc'
entry start
start:
        invoke  GetCommandLine
        mov     ebx, eax
        mov     edi, buff1
        mov     esi, ebx
        xor     ecx, ecx
next:
        lodsb
        cmp     al, ' '
        jz      pf1
        inc     ecx
        cmp     ecx, 11
        jae     error1
        jmp     next
pf1:
        inc     esi
        xor     ecx, ecx
@@:
        lodsb
        cmp     al, 20h
        jz      pf2
        stosb
        inc     ecx
        cmp     ecx, 11d
        jae     error2
        jmp     @b
pf2:
        mov     edi, buff2
@@:
        lodsb
        cmp     al, 0
        jz      pdone
        stosb
        jmp     @b
pdone:
        invoke  URLDownloadToFileA, 0, buff1, buff2, 0, 0
exit:
        invoke  ExitProcess, NULL
error1:
        invoke  printf, emsg1
        pop     ecx
        jmp     exit
error2:
        invoke  printf, emsg2
        pop     ecx
        jmp     exit
;section '.data' data readable writeable
emsg1   db      "ERROR: Invalid or no URL", 0
emsg2   db      "ERROR: Invalid or no output file name", 0
buff1   db      300 dup (0)
buff2   db      50 dup (0)
section '.idata' import data readable writeable
        library kernel32, "KERNEL32.DLL",\
                urlmon, "URLMON.DLL",\
                msvcrt, "MSVCRT.DLL"
        include 'api\kernel32.inc'
import  urlmon, URLDownloadToFileA, "URLDownloadToFileA"
import  msvcrt, printf, "printf"    
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JohnFound



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JohnFound 13 Mar 2011, 06:24
Interesting work - one can use it to download updates from bat file.
But some error check of the network transfer is needed in order to guarantee the file was downloaded properly.
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typedef 13 Mar 2011, 15:28
or you could use FormatMessage with GetLastError() so that in case of other errors, the system tells you what's wrong. But otherwise it's good. I love it.
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me239



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me239 13 Mar 2011, 19:09
JohnFound wrote:
Interesting work - one can use it to download updates from bat file.
But some error check of the network transfer is needed in order to guarantee the file was downloaded properly.
I could also just check to see if the new file exists. I know that method might not work the best in cases where files are being overwritten, but it's a start.
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