Re: wget and download.com

[Ryan Underwood]

Hello,

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 06:19:17AM -0400, joe j wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to download files with wget from download.com. I am using a 
> windows system. For some reason wget doesn?t know how to deal with 
> download.com links. For example Kazaa link 
> http://download.com.com/redir?pid=10214919&merid=88691&mfgid=88691&edId=3&siteId=4&oId=3002-20-10214919&ontId=20&ltype=dl_dlnow&lop=link&destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fdownload.kazaa.com%2Fkmd.exe

$ wget 
'http://download.com.com/redir?pid=10214919&merid=88691&mfgid=88691&edId=3&siteId=4&oId=3002-20-10214919&ontId=20&ltype=dl_dlnow&lop=link&destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fdownload.kazaa.com%2Fkmd.exe'

works fine for me.  Note the single quotes (otherwise the shell catches
the '&' characters).

-- 
Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253