Re: [Bug-wget] CNET download links not working with WGET

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

hello,

the "&" character in the url is interpreted by your shell.

Try using something like:

wget "URL"

Cheers,
Giuseppe



"Jeff Givens" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello, I am having an issue downloading files via download links from
> CNET.  It appears to locate some of the URL but stops at the first
> &siteId part.  I have included the debug information as well.  Thanks
> in advance for your help.
>
> C:\>DOWNLOAD\wget http://dw.com.com/redir?edId=3&siteId=4&oId=300
> 0-8022_4-10804572&ontId=8022_4&spi=077d9109e846975d0db9532bd610588f&lop=link&tag
> =tdw_dltext&ltype=dl_dlnow&pid=11665648&mfgId=6290020&merId=6290020&pguid=HFsQLw
> oOYJQAABuImQcAAAGm&destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fdownload.cnet.com%2F3001-8022_4-10804572
> .html%3Fspi%3D077d9109e846975d0db9532bd610588f
> --2011-04-19 11:30:35-- http://dw.com.com/redir?edId=3
> Resolving dw.com.com... 216.239.113.95
> Connecting to dw.com.com|216.239.113.95|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
> Location: http://dw.com.com/redir/redx/?edId=3 [following]
> --2011-04-19 11:30:36-- http://dw.com.com/redir/redx/?edId=3
> Reusing existing connection to dw.com.com:80.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
> 2011-04-19 11:30:36 ERROR 404: Not Found.
>
> 'siteId' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> 'oId' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> 'ontId' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> 'spi' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> 'lop' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> 'tag' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> 'ltype' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> 'pid' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> 'mfgId' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> 'merId' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> 'pguid' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> 'destUrl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
>
> DEBUG output created by Wget 1.11.4 on Windows-MSVC.
>
> --2011-04-19 11:27:09-- http://dw.com.com/redir?edId=3
> Resolving dw.com.com... seconds 0.00, 64.30.224.42
> Caching dw.com.com => 64.30.224.42
> Connecting to dw.com.com|64.30.224.42|:80... seconds 0.00, connected.
> Created socket 340.
> Releasing 0x01411158 (new refcount 1).
>
> ---request begin---
> GET /redir?edId=3 HTTP/1.0
>
> User-Agent: Wget/1.11.4
>
> Accept: */*
>
> Host: dw.com.com
>
> Connection: Keep-Alive
>
>
>
> ---request end---
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
> ---response begin---
> HTTP/1.1 302 Found
>
> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:27:26 GMT
>
> Server: Apache/2.0
>
> Pragma: no-cache
>
> Cache-control: no-cache, must-revalidate, no-transform
>
> Vary: *
>
> Expires: Fri, 23 Jan 1970 12:12:12 GMT
>
> Set-Cookie: XCLGFbrowser=Cg5iVk2tqd6JAAAA8Sg; expires=Sun, 18-Apr-2021
> 15:27:26 GMT; domain=.com.com; path=/
>
> Location: http://dw.com.com/redir/redx/?edId=3
>
> Content-Length: 0
>
> P3P: CP="CAO DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa PSAa PSDa IVAi IVDi CONi OUR OTRi
> IND PHY ONL UNI FIN COM NAV INT DEM STA"
>
> Keep-Alive: timeout=363, max=760
>
> Connection: Keep-Alive
>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
>
>
> ---response end---
> 302 Found
> Registered socket 340 for persistent reuse.
> cdm: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
> Stored cookie com.com -1 (ANY) / <permanent> <insecure> [expiry
> 2021-04-18 11:27:26] XCLGFbrowser Cg5iVk2tqd6JAAAA8Sg
> Location: http://dw.com.com/redir/redx/?edId=3 [following]
> Skipping 0 bytes of body: [] done.
> --2011-04-19 11:27:09-- http://dw.com.com/redir/redx/?edId=3
> Reusing existing connection to dw.com.com:80.
> Reusing fd 340.
>
> ---request begin---
> GET /redir/redx/?edId=3 HTTP/1.0
>
> User-Agent: Wget/1.11.4
>
> Accept: */*
>
> Host: dw.com.com
>
> Connection: Keep-Alive
>
> Cookie: XCLGFbrowser=Cg5iVk2tqd6JAAAA8Sg
>
>
>
> ---request end---
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
> ---response begin---
> HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
>
> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:27:26 GMT
>
> Server: Apache/2.0
>
> Content-Length: 209
>
> Keep-Alive: timeout=363, max=779
>
> Connection: Keep-Alive
>
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
>
>
>
> ---response end---
> 404 Not Found
> Skipping 209 bytes of body: [<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML
> 2.0//EN">
> <html><head>
> <title>404 Not Found</title>
> </head><body>
> <h1>Not Found</h1>
> <p>The requested URL /redir/redx/ was not found on this server.</p>
> </body></html>
> ] done.
> 2011-04-19 11:27:09 ERROR 404: Not Found.