dear wonderful Wget team, i'm trying to download files but am in an insecure location, so need to use as much anonymity & privacy as i can, therefore am using Tor, & https whenever possible
unfortunately i'm limited, thankfully not for long, to window$ xp64, so till Linux becomes available to me (soon) i've installed the Vidalia0.2.7+Polipo1.0.4.1+Tor0.2.1.25 (+TorButton for Firefox) bundle for window$, as well as the Wget1.11.4-for-window$ installer (as an aside, in the output further below please note that SYSTEM_WGETRC tried for c:/progra~1/wget/etc/wgetrc but i'm on XP64, so that points to a location in 64b program files & wget's not in there but in 32b i.e. progra~2... it doesn't matter to wget (which looks around till it finds wgetrc), just thought i'd point out that the folder doesn't exist in my case... anyway, the important stuff follows) in this setup, Vidalia handles Polipo for me, which in turn handles Tor for me (perhaps using socks but that's beyond my scope) Polipo is reachable to apps like Wget & TorButton-on-Firefox at http://127.0.0.1:8118/ according to advice i found via a link on Tor's website... ok, well because my internet connection is dial-up, & stutters along at that, i like to use Wget to download large (& medium) -sized files because Firefox often borks part-way through but thinks it's fine :( ah well... so i tried the above suggested path, but came up against this problem (please note: www addresses, username & filenames have been changed for privacy reasons, but the ones typed here are _valid_ substitutes) the Help & Man files advise me that i should be able to use e.g. http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8118/ *in the CLI*, with no wgetrc, but if i do so i get no use of Tor, & an error: C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin>wget "http://www.foo.org.uk/images/picture1.png"; -O "D:\picture1.png" http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8118/ --2010-04-11 19:20:10-- http://www.foo.org.uk/images/picture1.png Resolving www.foo.org.uk... 123.45.67.890 Connecting to www.foo.org.uk|123.45.67.890|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 272 [image/png] Saving to: `D:/picture1.png' 100%[=========================================================>] 272 1.3K/s in 0.1s 2010-04-11 19:20:11 (1.3 K/s) - `D:/picture1.png' saved [272/272] http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8118/: Unsupported scheme. FINISHED --2010-04-11 19:20:11-- Downloaded: 1 files, 272 in 0.1s (1.3 K/s) note the above error: "http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8118/: Unsupported scheme." <- i reckon this means it didn't go through Tor either :( whereas if i have http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8118/ *in my wgetrc*: C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin>wget "http://www.example.org.ca/images/picture2.png"; -O "D:\picture2.png" SYSTEM_WGETRC = c:/progra~1/wget/etc/wgetrc syswgetrc = C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32/etc/wgetrc --2010-04-11 19:35:44-- http://www.example.org.ca/images/picture2.png Connecting to 127.0.0.1:8118... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 604 [image/png] Saving to: `D:/picture2.png' 100%[=========================================================>] 604 768B/s in 0.8s 2010-04-11 19:36:22 (768 B/s) - `D:/picture2.png' saved [604/604] which seems to work securely similar tests with & without wgetrc, & using variations on the protocol, or using spaces in the cli option (was disastrous), have highlighted this 'bug' in the same way this may not be an issue on Linux, i don't know yet, but as window$ users are often in need of extra security (e.g. vast numbers of users of 'copied' window$ in China, needing safe access to the internet), may i respectfully advise that if this hasn't already been brought to the attention of the Wget devs, it does so? so that, even if it doesn't get 'fixed' as such, a notice may be included in the Help & Man files of the workaround... i am also sending this info. to the guys at Tor so that they may include it in advice on their website thank-you, 'Zark' :) _________________________________________________________________ If It Exists, You'll Find it on SEEK. Australia's #1 job site http://clk.atdmt.com/NMN/go/157639755/direct/01/
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