Disable metalink

[Carles Pina i Estany]

Hi wget2 community,

If there is a better place to send user questions let me know please.

I'm trying to migrate from wget to wget2 and I've had some unexpected
behaviour for me.

The main question is: how to disable downloading what I understand is
via the metalinks file? (chunking) even though the server allows it?

E.g.:
$ wget2 --no-metalink 
https://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/6.5/6.5.1/single/qt-everywhere-src-6.5.1.tar.xz
[0] Downloading 
'https://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/6.5/6.5.1/single/qt-everywhere-src-6.5.1.tar.xz'
 ...
HTTP response 302 Found 
[https://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/6.5/6.5.1/single/qt-everywhere-src-6.5.1.tar.xz]

And nothing gets downloaded (I expected wget2 to follow the redirect and
download the file).
If this is a bug I'm happy to open a bug on gitlab.

I wasn't familiar with the metalink standard. I was surprised that wget
was downloading the file in chunks which makes it way slower in this
case:

$ time wget -O /dev/null -q 
https://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/6.5/6.5.1/single/qt-everywhere-src-6.5.1.tar.xz

real    0m7.064s
user    0m1.006s
sys     0m0.717s

$ time wget2 -O /dev/null -q 
https://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/6.5/6.5.1/single/qt-everywhere-src-6.5.1.tar.xz


real    0m29.694s
user    0m5.648s
sys     0m6.265s

So in this case I wanted to download the file not follow the metalink...
and I haven't been able to do it just yet.

Thank you very much,

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Carles Pina i Estany
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