On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:40:31 +1200 Roy Britten wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 19:33 +0200, Robert Himmelmann wrote: > > wget http://laby.toybox.de/download2.php?fileid=15 does the same. In > > http there is some part of the header which specifies the filename of > > whatever is being transmitted. They use Apache/1.3.33 with PHP > > (obviously). I would think that they forgot this field when they wrote > > the script. (You have to specify it) Firefox probably uses in cases > > like this the URL it had before the redirect and wget the one after. > > Classify it as a bug in their script and rename the file. > > man wget > ... > -O file > --output-document=file > The documents will not be written to the appropriate files, but all > will be concatenated together and written to file. If file already > exists, it will be overwritten. If the file is -, the documents > will be written to standard output. Including this option automat- > ically sets the number of tries to 1. Note that when --output-docu- > ment is specified, --convert-links is ignored. > > If you're only downloading one file, it's effectively a rename.
Yep I am familiar with the -O option. The program i am interfacing with isn't. the script I am writing is an ebuild. It exports a URL to portageand portage uses the url to download a file that is expected to behave normally, ie be properly named. > > Roy. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
