I'm trying to write an entirely automated process of installing Windows updates in Server 2003. I've got code to run every executable in a folder, and WUD seems to be exactly the utility I need to download all the updates to the folder.

My question is, is it possible to do a remote download of the file without accessing the download page? Basically, I have a script right now that tries to, but it ends up grabbing some HTML instead.

At the moment, all the ULZ files are hotlink protected, which is why you're getting HTML instead of a ULZ file.

I'm sure that jcarle could implement this in a future release of WUD.

It'd be absolutely awesome if this were included.

Complete standalone install and patching of Server 2003 (Or any Windows OS) would be ridiculously cool.

Unfortunately, that is not possible as that is against Microsoft's EULA, reasons why AutoPatcher received Cease and Desists from Microsoft.