> Maybe depends on version of wget? I probably used wget-1.18 (the version > in debian stable; I don't have access to the same system at the moment > so I'm not 100% sure).
Looks like the odd behavior is for 19.2 only; 19.1 behaves "normally": ####:1> wget --version|egrep built GNU Wget 1.19.1 built on linux-gnu. ####:2> wget http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/nettle-3.4.tar.gz --2017-11-20 15:17:26-- http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/nettle-3.4.ta\ r.gz Resolving www.lysator.liu.se (www.lysator.liu.se)... 130.236.254.11, 2001:6b0:1\ 7:f0a0::b Connecting to www.lysator.liu.se (www.lysator.liu.se)|130.236.254.11|:80... con\ nected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1935069 (1.8M) [application/unix-tar] Saving to: 'nettle-3.4.tar.gz' [...] 2017-11-20 15:17:26 (4.25 MB/s) - 'nettle-3.4.tar.gz' saved [1935069/1935069] ####:3> file 'nettle-3.4.tar.gz' nettle-3.4.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, last modified: Sun Nov 19 13:36:24 201\ 7, from Unix ####:5> wget --version |egrep built GNU Wget 1.19.2 built on linux-gnu. ####:6> rm -f nettle-3.4.tar.gz && wget http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archiv\ e/nettle-3.4.tar.gz --2017-11-20 15:18:14-- http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/nettle-3.4.ta\ r.gz Resolving www.lysator.liu.se (www.lysator.liu.se)... 130.236.254.11, 2001:6b0:1\ 7:f0a0::b Connecting to www.lysator.liu.se (www.lysator.liu.se)|130.236.254.11|:80... con\ nected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1935069 (1.8M) [application/unix-tar] Saving to: 'nettle-3.4.tar.gz' [...] 2017-11-20 15:18:14 (4.11 MB/s) - 'nettle-3.4.tar.gz' saved [6348800] ####:7> file nettle-3.4.tar.gz nettle-3.4.tar.gz: POSIX tar archive (GNU) ciao gabriele
