Re: downloading using wget problems

From: Mirko Nasato <mirko.nasato_at_libero.it>
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 14:27:44 GMT
Message-ID: <AjWp9.37636$Fz.1106282@news1.tin.it>

Hi Peter.

Oracle download site use cookies to check if you are a registered user, so create an account if you don't have one, then login in with your graphical browser.

At this point you can use wget as follows

$ wget -c --load-cookies ~/.netscape/cookies.txt $URL

(where $URL stands for http://download.oracle.com/...).

This works for Netscape 4.7, if you use mozilla the path to cookies.txt is different, see

$ man wget

for details about --load-cookies.

Good luck!

\mirko

Peter Kellner wrote:
> Could someone send me (or post) the two or three lines it takes to
> download oracle's server software. I've tried lots of versions of
> wget and I always get a small (what looks like html) file and not the
> full file I'm expecting. Here is what I am doing:
>
> wget
> http://download.oracle.com/otn/linux/oracle9i/9201/lnx_920_disk1.cpio.Z
> --http-user="myusername" --http-passwd="mypassword"
>
> Thanks
Received on Sat Oct 12 2002 - 09:27:44 CDT