ftp help (not EA-related)

[Listener]

Hi. Can anyone help me set up a script in CuteFTP, or write a batch file I can have Windows run, or somehow teach me how to write a WGET statement that downloads an RSS feed from Yahoo every five minutes and uploads said file to my web server?

I've gone to the GNU WGET page but am completely stymied, and if our meteorologist bitches about his blog again I swear I'm going to hit him. (He looks like Cesar Romero as the Joker, by the way... I'm going to do a TotallyLooksLike one of these days...)

If you can help, please respond to this thread or e-mail me or PM me or something. Appreciate it.

[SFEley]

What's your Web server running, and what capabilities do you have on it?  If your Web hosting provider allows 'cron' jobs, setting up the wget command on the server's end and letting it retrieve the feed on its own would probably be the simplest way to do this.

Secondarily, I'm also a bit curious why you want to bring the RSS feed to your own server instead of simply linking to it at Yahoo.  Are you doing some sort of transformation on the content?  Most feed widgets and such don't really care where the feed lives, they'll get it from wherever.

[Listener]

We only have IIS; our site only uses VB.Net. No perl, no PHP. I don't know what a cron job is, but I know I can't access the command line; I'd have to go through corporate IT and they have said no already to that.

The feed is a Yahoo Pipes RSS we use to feed our blogs, because the blog software we are required by our company to use does not have a way to build a group blog. Pipes caches a LOT, and the people on the Pipes support forums say the only way to get around that is to WGET it.  The cache for Pipes is literally as long as 90 minutes, and Chris Holcomb can be really annoying in person when his latest blog doesn't post, despite how nice he seems when you see him on the news.