This looks like you are specifying a userid and password for the web site to authenticate. This might be on your command, and you're just not showing it to us, or it might be in /etc/wgetrc or ~/.wgetrc. In any case, try doing it without that, since that works for me.
Mark Post
-----Original Message-----
From: Emily Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 5:55 PM
To: Post, Mark K
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: "403 Forbidden" Errors with mac.com
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:07:10 -0500
"Post, Mark K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Don't know what is happening on your end. I just executed
> wget http://idisk.mac.com/tombb/Public/tex-edit-plus-X.sit
>
> and it downloaded 2,484,062 bytes of something.
>
> What does using the -d option show you?
>
>
> Mark Post
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Emily Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 6:26 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: "403 Forbidden" Errors with mac.com
>
>
> This produces a "403 Forbidden" error:
>
> wget "http://idisk.mac.com/tombb/Public/tex-edit-plus-X.sit"
>
> as does this:
>
> wget --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us)
> AppleWebKit/125.5.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.12"
> "http://idisk.mac.com/tombb/Public/tex-edit-plus-X.sit"
>
> (all on one line, of course; the user agent specified is for Apple's
> Safari browser)
>
> curl -O works fine, however. What else could I try to be able to use
> wget to download this file? [wget 1.9.1, Mac OS X 10.3.7] (Please cc
> any replies directly to me.)
[m5:~] emilyjac% wget -d
http://idisk.mac.com/tombb/Public/tex-edit-plus-X.sit
DEBUG output created by Wget 1.9.1 on darwin7.6.0.
--16:50:24-- http://idisk.mac.com/tombb/Public/tex-edit-plus-X.sit
=> `tex-edit-plus-X.sit'
Resolving idisk.mac.com... 17.250.248.77
Caching idisk.mac.com => 17.250.248.77
Connecting to idisk.mac.com[17.250.248.77]:80... connected.
Created socket 4.
Releasing 0x3084f0 (new refcount 1).
---request begin---
GET /tombb/Public/tex-edit-plus-X.sit HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: Wget/1.9.1
Host: idisk.mac.com
Accept: */*
Connection: Keep-Alive
Authorization: Basic bTVjb21wOm1rb2lqbg==
---request end---
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 22:50:24 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) DAV/1.0.2
x-responding-server: webdav04
Content-Type: text/html;charset=iso-8859-1
Connection: close
Closing fd 4
16:50:24 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
[BTW, the file is a StuffIt archive of a shareware text editor for Mac
OS X.]
Thanks,
Emily
--
"If it seem slow, wait for it; it will surely come, it will not delay."
Emily Jackson
<http://home.hiwaay.net/~emilyj/missjackson.html>
