Hi gooly, it is not wget that have to be blamed.
The server says "permission denied" included in the 403 response. You can check that by adding --content-on-error. That means --no-check-certificate works correctly. Wget connects to the server, sends a request and gets a response (403 Forbidden). You'll need some credentials (Username/Password) to connect to the server for sure. The reason why it sometimes works and sometimes not might be a IP address caching on the server. If you login on the server with a browser and after that use wget from the same IP address, the server might let you in (for a while, e.g. 10 or 30 minutes). Tim On Sunday 14 February 2016 21:51:18 gooly wrote: > Hi, > I have no idea what can I do. It has been working last Sunday but now it > fails again - the same script!! > > I want to download a https-page every Sunday evening and I want wget to > ignore the certificate of the https-page! > > PS-So my script has: > > $urlDFx = "https://www.dailyfx.com/calendar/"; > $argList = " $urlDFx -O $rawDFx -o $logDFx --no-check-certificate " > $wg = Start-Process wget -wait -NoNewWindow -PassThru -ArgumentList > $argList > > The other variables are names of my local files - if you know wget you > will know. > > Last Sunday this worked perfect if I run it in the ps-cmd and in > Powershell's ISE but it fails regularly if the script was called by the > task scheduler. > > Finally I got the task-scheduler-call to work by adding --verbose: > $argList = "$urlDFx -O $rawDFx -o $logDFx --no-check-certificate > --verbose " > > But today (Sunday again) the task-scheduler call failed and now even the > call in the ISE failed??? > > The error is always the same: > > --2016-02-14 21:23:26-- https://www.dailyfx.com/calendar/ > > Resolving www.dailyfx.com... 104.87.22.147 > > Connecting to www.dailyfx.com|104.87.22.147|:443... connected. > > WARNING: cannot verify www.dailyfx.com's certificate, issued by > > `/C=US/O=GeoTrust Inc./CN=GeoTrust SSL CA - G3': > > Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority. > > > > WARNING: certificate common name `fxcm.com' doesn't match requested > > host name `www.dailyfx.com'. > > > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden > > 2016-02-14 21:23:26 ERROR 403: Forbidden. > > So: > 1) wget accesses the url but > 2) ignores the option --no-check-certificate > 3) stops the dld of the https-page but > 4) tries the http-page and fails with a 403-error > > What do I have to do that wget called by my Powershell script > => _FOR SURE_ (!!) > loads this https _IGNORING_ the certificate!! > > Thanks in advance! > Gooly
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