wget inability of downloading certain files

[tlc]

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 16:44 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> Paul Smith wrote:
> > Dear All
> > 
> > Sometimes, wget is unable to download some files. As an example try to
> > download, with wget, some file from
> 
> $ wget -Otempfile
> "http://slax.linux-live.org/modules.php?action=download&id=427"
> --16:43:25--  http://slax.linux-live.org/modules.php?action=download&id=427
>            => `tempfile'
> Resolving slax.linux-live.org... 81.0.235.161
> Connecting to slax.linux-live.org|81.0.235.161|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
> Location: ftp://ftp.slax.org/SLAX-5-modules/system/Artwiz_en_en_US.mo
> [following]
> --16:43:25--  ftp://ftp.slax.org/SLAX-5-modules/system/Artwiz_en_en_US.mo
>            => `tempfile'
> Resolving ftp.slax.org... 81.0.235.161
> Connecting to ftp.slax.org|81.0.235.161|:21... connected.
> Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
> ==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
> ==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /SLAX-5-modules/system ... done.
> ==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR Artwiz_en_en_US.mo ... done.
> Length: 106,496 (104K) (unauthoritative)
> 
> 100%[============================================================================================================================>]
> 106,496      194.85K/s
> 
> 16:43:29 (194.42 KB/s) - `tempfile' saved [106496]
> 
> $
> 
> Works fine.  Seems you have something between wget and the Internet that
> disrupts passive ftp.  Time for a google.
> 

Yeah but it did it actually download the file you were trying to
download, or an html index page. It doesn;t work for me either. It
connects and downloads .. but it doesn't load the module.

> -Andy
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