Re: Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Course is ready

On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:48:07 -0800
NoOp <glgxg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

wget
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=student.pdf
(will need to get it a bit at a time, dialup very slow)

and I get HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
01:12:25 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
Many thanks,
Take Care
Winton

It is 72.5MB. Works from a browser download: right click the link and
use 'save link target'. It will want to save to Training.htm - that's
ok, let it save & then rename to Training.pdf. You dont' need any
special account access.

That isn't the problem.

Winton is on dial-up, and therefore prefers to use wget - so would I.

Downloading large files on dial-up from the browser is unreliable. wget
solves that particular problem - it is both more reliable in general, and
specifically more reliable for downloading with resume, which on dialup is
*often* necessary. ( For example, until I got my current adsl2+ connection,
I had a five hour limit on any given dial-up session, which is common, at
least in Australia, for dial-up).

Tony Arnold's post is right - in this case the URL needs to be quoted for
wget to work.

Peter

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