On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:30:25 -0500 
"Post, Mark K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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.

It was my .netrc file--I have a mac.com account, and I had my mac.com
username and password in ~/.netrc to use with cadaver. I never thought
about that; thanks for pointing that out.

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>

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