On 30-Mar-09, at 6:44 PM, Arun Tomar wrote: > hi! > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Yogesh Hasabnis > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 Kulkarni Shantanu wrote : >>> * Yogesh Hasabnis <[email protected]> [090330 17:13]: >>>> >>>> >>>> Login?Template=esd_login_template&GAREASONCODE=-1& >>>> >>> >>>> APPID=DownloadsProd1&URI=http:%2F%2Fdownloads.somesite.com >>>> %2FESDWeb%2FReleaseDetail.eo% >>>> >>>> ?methodTocCall=download%25: File name too long >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Can you suggest some pointers or docs for getting around this >>>> problem ? >>> >>> Can you try, >>> wget -c -O small_fname.dat '<your long url>' >>> >>> Note - it is capital "O" >>> >>> Shantanu >>> -- >> >> >> Hi All, >> >> Thanks for all the suggestions. Actually there is one more issue >> involved .... that of https authentication. When I do the download >> from the URL I am redirected at https://access.somesite.com . >> >> I will do some searching around on the net and will get back if I >> can make it work. >> >> Thanks All, >> Yogesh > > you can use curl to do the authentication. better write a shell > script. inside the shell script use curl to authenticate & then wget > to download the relevant files . >
you may try something like wget http://<username>:<password>@<remaining url> regards, shantanoo _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
