Can it be that the server allows GET but not HEAD? Can you attach the debug log without --spider as well? You can drop the payload if it is confidential :-) The request and the response headers matter.
Thanks, Giuseppe Avinash <pavin...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi , > > I am getting 'Authorization Failed' error on following URL with --spider > option. > > whereas, it works and also downloads the file when I remove --spider > option. > > My requirement is not to download it, but to read the server-response only. > Anybody any idea as to why it is happening ? > > ============================================================================ > > /usr/bin/wget --debug --server-response --spider > http://172.20.241.55:8888/9/Acceptable%20Use/Confidential_Internal_Memos.docx--http-user=test > --http-password=password > > s.docx --http-user=test --http-password=password > Setting --server-response (serverresponse) to 1 > Setting --spider (spider) to 1 > Setting --http-user (httpuser) to test > Setting --http-password (httppassword) to Recnex#1 > DEBUG output created by Wget 1.10.2 (Red Hat modified) on linux-gnu. > > --11:11:43-- > http://172.20.241.55:8888/9/Acceptable%20Use/Confidential_Internal_Memos.docx > => `Confidential_Internal_Memos.docx' > Connecting to 172.20.241.55:8888... connected. > Created socket 3. > Releasing 0x00000000005416f0 (new refcount 0). > Deleting unused 0x00000000005416f0. > > ---request begin--- > HEAD /9/Acceptable%20Use/Confidential_Internal_Memos.docx HTTP/1.0 > User-Agent: Wget/1.10.2 (Red Hat modified) > Accept: */* > Authorization: Basic dGVzdDpSZWNuZXgjMQ== > Host: 172.20.241.55:8888 > Connection: Keep-Alive > > ---request end--- > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... > ---response begin--- > HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized > Content-Length: 1656 > Content-Type: text/html > Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 > WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate > WWW-Authenticate: NTLM > X-Powered-By: ASP.NET > Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 05:55:12 GMT > Connection: keep-alive > > ---response end--- > > HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized > Content-Length: 1656 > Content-Type: text/html > Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 > WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate > WWW-Authenticate: NTLM > X-Powered-By: ASP.NET > Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 05:55:12 GMT > Connection: keep-alive > Registered socket 3 for persistent reuse. > Disabling further reuse of socket 3. > Closed fd 3 > Empty NTLM message, starting transaction. > Creating a type-1 NTLM message. > Connecting to 172.20.241.55:8888... connected. > Created socket 3. > Releasing 0x00000000005415a0 (new refcount 0). > Deleting unused 0x00000000005415a0. > > ---request begin--- > HEAD /9/Acceptable%20Use/Confidential_Internal_Memos.docx HTTP/1.0 > User-Agent: Wget/1.10.2 (Red Hat modified) > Accept: */* > Authorization: NTLM TlRMTVNTUAABAAAAAgIAAAAAAAAgAAAAAAAAACAAAAA= > Host: 172.20.241.55:8888 > Connection: Keep-Alive > > ---request end--- > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... > ---response begin--- > HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized > Content-Length: 1539 > Content-Type: text/html > Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 > WWW-Authenticate: NTLM > TlRMTVNTUAACAAAAAAAAADgAAAACAgACAugUTcnBdbkAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA4AAAABQLODgAAAA8= > X-Powered-By: ASP.NET > Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 05:55:12 GMT > Connection: keep-alive > > ---response end--- > > HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized > Content-Length: 1539 > Content-Type: text/html > Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 > WWW-Authenticate: NTLM > TlRMTVNTUAACAAAAAAAAADgAAAACAgACAugUTcnBdbkAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA4AAAABQLODgAAAA8= > X-Powered-By: ASP.NET > Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 05:55:12 GMT > Connection: keep-alive > Registered socket 3 for persistent reuse. > Disabling further reuse of socket 3. > Closed fd 3 > Received a type-2 NTLM message. > Creating a type-3 NTLM message. > Connecting to 172.20.241.55:8888... connected. > Created socket 3. > Releasing 0x00000000005432a0 (new refcount 0). > Deleting unused 0x00000000005432a0. > > ---request begin--- > HEAD /9/Acceptable%20Use/Confidential_Internal_Memos.docx HTTP/1.0 > User-Agent: Wget/1.10.2 (Red Hat modified) > Accept: */* > Authorization: NTLM > TlRMTVNTUAADAAAAGAAYAEQAAAAYABgAXAAAAAAAAABAAAAABAAEAEAAAAAAAAAARAAAAAAAAAB0AAAAAYIAAHRlc3TAT6OiQKrO+dHjEjlknU5AyFpl7cOFhxbwn8z4gcxySH43C9uoPx96OryCmJ3OKAU= > Host: 172.20.241.55:8888 > Connection: Keep-Alive > > ---request end--- > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... > ---response begin--- > HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized > Content-Length: 1539 > Content-Type: text/html > Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 > WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate > WWW-Authenticate: NTLM > X-Powered-By: ASP.NET > Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 05:55:12 GMT > Connection: keep-alive > > ---response end--- > > HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized > Content-Length: 1539 > Content-Type: text/html > Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 > WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate > WWW-Authenticate: NTLM > X-Powered-By: ASP.NET > Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 05:55:12 GMT > Connection: keep-alive > Registered socket 3 for persistent reuse. > Disabling further reuse of socket 3. > Closed fd 3 > Authorization failed.