On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 9:21 AM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > I was sent a URL to download a file and passed the URL to wget, which > thought about the task before giving up and telling me the network (in South > America) was not reachable so it could not connect. > > Pasting the URL in firefox immediately initiated downloading the file. > > As a non-expert in wget I'm curious why it might fail while the browser > succeeds. > > Here's the URL: > <http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openjfx/libopenjfx-java_8u161-b12-1_all.deb> >
Works for me ;/ carl@twist:/tmp$ wget http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openjfx/libopenjfx-java_8u161-b12-1_all.deb --2018-04-26 09:33:50-- http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openjfx/libopenjfx-java_8u161-b12-1_all.deb Resolving ftp.br.debian.org (ftp.br.debian.org)... 200.236.31.3, 2801:82:80ff:8000::4 Connecting to ftp.br.debian.org (ftp.br.debian.org)|200.236.31.3|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 9916696 (9.5M) [application/x-debian-package] Saving to: ‘libopenjfx-java_8u161-b12-1_all.deb’ libopenjfx-java_8u1 100%[===================>] 9.46M 2.34MB/s in 4.0s 2018-04-26 09:33:55 (2.34 MB/s) - ‘libopenjfx-java_8u161-b12-1_all.deb’ saved [9916696/9916696] One explanation is you are behind an http proxy that FF knows about but wget does not. > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Carl K _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug