-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [email protected] wrote: > Wget Tech Support, > > I am using GNU Wget 1.11.4.3287 on Windows Vista Ultimate. > > I am trying to download a web comic from a website, which is a set of > JPG images. > > Here is the URL of one of the image: > http://blacktapestries.comicgenesis.com/comics/20020711.jpg > It's real size is 600px X 800px (85.66 KB) > Unfortunately, every time I use Wget to download it, all I get is 1px X > 1px (1.09 KB) image. > It seems to be able to download JPG images from other websites, so it > isn't a format issue. > > When I attempt download all the web comic's pages from the parent > directory, using this command: > > wget --no-parent -ckr http://blacktapestries.comicgenesis.com/comics > > I get this response:
<snip> > 2009-06-01 22:00:30 ERROR 403: Forbidden. > > I don't understand why this is happening because I am able to download > the images manually using the Firefox internet browser. The "/comics" link above is also "Forbidden" for me in a browser, so perhaps that was a poor URL choice? However, http://blacktapestries.comicgenesis.com/ by itself is also forbidden for wget; adding "-U Mozilla" to wget's invocation solved that. But to get to your actual question: the server apparently demands that requests for images include an HTTP "Referer" header (that is, it should be fetched because it was linked from a page, and not entered into a URL directly). So, if you type that image's URL directly into your browser, you will also get a 1x1 blank image, instead of the real image you can only get by clicking a link, seeing it as part of a page, or (possibly?) using the "view image" feature of your browser's context menu. For wget, adding "--referer http://blacktapestries.comicgenesis.com/"; to the invocation seems to solve the issue. I did not need to use -U Mozilla for that, just for the actual web pages. - -- HTH, Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkolXAMACgkQ7M8hyUobTrEagwCfe3SIP3z3H69IdRDRsOPcl2Hf T7gAn3uBelkIitePuBFJs3S//0RHclZ8 =/kFi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
