[Slackbuilds-users] Problem with SourceForge and wget

[Antonio Hernández Blas]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 7:25 AM, Nicolas Kovacs <info at microlinux.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Whenever I want to download some source tarball from SourceForge using
> wget, I get permantently redirected until eventually some mirror times
> out. So I have to reinvoke the command, sometimes ten times in a row,
> until eventually it works out. This is really getting tiresome.
>
> Do you have some workaround for this?
>

Maybe some servers are blocking wget's User-Agent string.

Go to http://whatsmyuseragent.com, grab the User-Agent string of your web
browser and use it: wget -U "User-Agent string"

Check wget's man-page about "-U".

- Cheers

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