There are some URLs which wget refuses to fetch but which lynx handles
okay.  For example,

% wget 
http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/Class/Class-MethodMaker-1.06.tar.gz
--16:29:45--
http://www.perl.com:80/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/Class/Class-MethodMaker-1.06.tar.gz
           => `Class-MethodMaker-1.06.tar.gz'
Connecting to www.perl.com:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: 
http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/Class/Class-MethodMaker-1.06.tar.gz
[following]
http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/Class/Class-MethodMaker-1.06.tar.gz: 
Redirection
to itself.

But,

% lynx -source 
http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/Class/Class-MethodMaker-1.06.tar.gz | 
wc -c
  35026

What is lynx doing that wget isn't doing?  It seems completely
reasonable to give up with 'redirection to itself', yet somehow the
same URL works with programs other than wget.

-- 
Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



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