Hello
I'm trying to wget a collection of (big) mp4 files.
I have every file URL available, say "http://www.site.com/path/video";.
The site uses a session cookie for authentication.
I have managed to dump this cookie to a local file and use this file when
connecting to the server for the download process.
I'm using this command line:
wget --load-cookies cookies.txt http://www.site.com/path/somewhere/video
The download seems to proceed fine but eventually I get less than half the
video ..
Tried many other videos with same results.
With firefox, using page information, I can see the media named "video" which
is mp4 file. If I click save as firefox will download the whole file without a problem.
I tried curl instead of wget: same bad result.
So I tried many options from wget's man page, like --ignore-length and others,
to no avail.
wget --ignore-length -S output is:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 19:57:59 GMT
Server: Apache
Vary: Host
Expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 19:57:59 GMT
Cache-Control: store, no-cache, must-revalidate
Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0
P3P: CP="NOI ADM DEV COM NAV OUR STP"
X-Debug-Data: 21450
X-Content-Duration: 502.109
Content-Location: patch/video
X-Bandwidth-Control: On
X-Video-Bitrate: 28064.4
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 2925253
Connection: close
Content-Type: video/mp4
Longueur: ignoré [video/mp4]
If I do wget -S without --ignore-length the last line becomes "Longueur: 2925253
(2,8M) [video/mp4]" which is the exact length of the truncated file wget manages to
download !!
Is wget ignoring my "--ignore-length" flag ??
Sorry for this long message and my poor english level .. I'm french and totally
confused by this problem ..
Thanks for your help.