On Sunday 08 May 2005 12:44 pm, hajhouse-at-houseag.com (Henry House) |lugod| wrote: > P� s�ndag, 08 maj 2005, skrev Peter Jay Salzman: > > On Sun 08 May 05, 12:22 PM, Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Sunday 08 May 2005 07:56 am, p-at-dirac.org (Peter Jay Salzman) > > > |lugod| > > > > > > wrote: > > > > There's an URL to a pdf download of an article published by Optics > > > > Letters. I don't think anyone can access this because I'm using a > > > > Princeton University proxy (and Princeton has a subscription to this > > > > journal), but the URL is: > > > > > > > > http://ol.osa.org/ViewMedia.cfm?id=68550&seq=0 > > > > > > > > It doesn't look like a pdf. I tried and tried to get the pdf to > > > > download and display on Firefox on Linux. I think perhaps it > > > > downloads OK but Firefox doesn't know what to do with it, since it's > > > > a "cfm" file, whatever that is, not a pdf file. > > > > > > Did you try downloading it, then opening it with a PDF viewer? > > > > Yeah -- The trouble is I don't know how to get wget to use the proxy (and > > I have an aversion to fixing problem #2 when problem #1 is still > > outstanding. ;) > > Wget will honor the contents of the http_proxy environment variable. It > should be in the format "http://<proxyhost>:<port>/".
I'm guessing the proxy requires a username and password, though. op (wget has --proxy-username and --proxy-password options, which will probably work) -- Ryan Castellucci - http://ryanc.org/ GPG Key: http://ryanc.org/files/publickey.asc _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
