Re: [Bug-wget] CNET download links not working with WGET

2011-06-08 Thread Jeff Givens
No, it's not working. It downloads part of the URL and creates a file named 3001-8022_4-10804572.html@spi=077d9109e846975d0db9532bd610588f.1 which is 68 KB. I cannot wget to treat the string of characters as a whole URL. Please help, I really need to get this script working and the only

Re: [Bug-wget] CNET download links not working with WGET

2011-06-08 Thread Micah Cowan
If you read the most recent output of wget that you gave (after quoting the URL), it _does_ treat the string of characters as a whole URL. The server redirects it to a shorter URL. If I enter that same URL into a browser, it does the same redirection there, and results in an HTML page, just

Re: [Bug-wget] CNET download links not working with WGET

2011-06-08 Thread Jeff Givens
Micah, thanks for your help. That was the piece that I was missing. I didn't realize it was re-directing to another site. I was able to find out the other site it was going to, download the executable and then I just put in a command to re-name the exe file since it was named the URL.

Re: [Bug-wget] CNET download links not working with WGET

2011-05-26 Thread Micah Cowan
So... looks like it works, then. Your command shell isn't complaining about weird command names, wget is clearly requesting the full and correct URL, it follows redirections, and saves using the final redirection URL (the latest sources wouldn't follow that last step - it'd save using the request

[Bug-wget] CNET download links not working with WGET

2011-04-23 Thread Jeff Givens
Hello, I am having an issue downloading files via download links from CNET. It appears to locate some of the URL but stops at the first siteId part. I have included the debug information as well. Thanks in advance for your help. C:\DOWNLOAD\wget

Re: [Bug-wget] CNET download links not working with WGET

2011-04-23 Thread Giuseppe Scrivano
hello, the character in the url is interpreted by your shell. Try using something like: wget URL Cheers, Giuseppe Jeff Givens j...@sds.net writes: Hello, I am having an issue downloading files via download links from CNET. It appears to locate some of the URL but stops at the first