Hi, @congvert !
If I were you, I would use a program or utility to download the CSV file. You can download the file to your Shared Folder location. Then you can just process them (or import them) using SAS code.
I would:
a. Download the file to the Shared Folder.
b. Create a Snippett with the code to do the import.
c. Either run this code on-demand or have it run in your Autoexec script if you'd like.
As for how to do the download, there are a number of utilities to do this, or you could use Perl or another utility language to carry it out. You could also use the SAS 'proc http' I believe, but that would not work in a Scheduled Task on the Windows side and you wouldn't have access to create a cron job on the Linux VM. That's what I'd suggest doing it on your Windows (or Mac) host.
Let me know if this doesen't make sense. It sounds interesting!
Randy
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