Download file directly to a remote machine

Question

Is there any possibility to download a file to some remote machine which has ftp, ssh, nfs access. What I mean is that it doesn't have to go through the machine from which the download is issued.

Solution

if it has ssh, you can always ssh the remote machine, and execute the following command to download a file directly to that machine

wget <link_of_file_to_download>

for example, to download a tux picture whose link i know into a server of mine, i would do the following commands

ssh user@myserver
wget http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Tux.svg/170px-Tux.svg.png

Comments

[Jim Salter]

This question does not make sense as-is. Where is the file that you want to download? How would you normally download that file?

[Borivoje Petrovic]

Sorry, I kinda found the answer, but I don't know how to automate it. THe file is on the web, e.g., I saw that one could ssh into remote machine and then wget it. Of course, automate it from the browser.

[Borivoje Petrovic]

True, Sam, that is exactly the procedure. It would be great if that could be done ONLY from firefox!

[Sam]

by doing that, even if the file is not saved on computer A, the file still goes through computers A and B and if i understand correctly, the op wants to download it directly to computer B without passing through A

[Sam]

there might be a plugin for firefox, tho i havent searched for one