----- "Mark Montague" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On January 4, 2011 22:32 , Carlos S <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Recently I was trying to download a package using wget, but the
> > website prevented access to it. I tried --user-agent option but it
> > didn't work either. So I was curious to know what strategy this web
> > admin must have implemented.
>
> Without an example URL, I can only speculate, but the ideas that come
> to
> mind first are denying the download unless a cookie is set (you could
i.ga...@panic ~ % wget --help | grep cook
--no-cookies don’t use cookies.
--load-cookies=FILE load cookies from FILE before session.
--save-cookies=FILE save cookies to FILE after session.
--keep-session-cookies load and save session (non-permanent) cookies.
i.ga...@panic ~ %
> get quite complex with this, such as setting the cookie via
> JavaScript,
Yup.. that (JS) would kill off wget.. but also many other (sensible) clients
> which wget won't execute), checking the referrer header, or other
i.ga...@panic ~ % wget --help | grep -i referer
--referer=URL include ‘Referer: URL’ header in HTTP request.
i.ga...@panic ~ %
> JavaScript based checks.
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> Mark Montague
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