Re: [dev] [surf] downloads

From: Rob <robpilling_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 15:57:45 +0000

On 5 November 2011 14:26, Troels Henriksen <athas_AT_sigkill.dk> wrote:
> Étienne Faure <tinoucas_AT_gmail.com> writes:
>> Try this:
>>
>> wget 'http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3792&adding=dummy&arguments=that&could=be&a=horrible&hash=that&i=ve&seen=on&crappy=sites&unfortunatly=i&can=not&find=a&publicly=available&example=of&this=so&let=s&go=for&a=hash&here=514241337a3c43a0bb28eb88de0adde1&and=another&one=K3NYV1NvZm9IeU5IRFRjbkFIdjdlV0F5cW5HbVFzeWJpcFd0UHZyenhEZklDSUNrb1VwdnN3PT0K'
>
> What an ugly mess.  Is there really no usable downloader program that
> can handle these (not terribly rare) cases in a simple manner?  This
> sounds like a good candidate for a new Suckless project, although I'm
> partial to simply using the wget-loop for now.

I don't know why wget and curl fail on this. Anyway, time for a
shameless self-plug.
http://github.com/jeffwar/wgetlite

Handles it fine. The only thing it's lacking is HTTPS support at the
moment.


Rob
Received on Sat Nov 05 2011 - 16:57:45 CET