Roland Mainz wrote: > "Jason J. W. Williams" wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Roland Mainz >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Derek Cicero wrote: >>> > >>>> Please find the links to SXCE Build 83 at: >>>> >>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/ >>> Could you please check why "wget" can't download these ISOs >>> ? I am >>> unable to do any downloads because the FireFox versions >>> shipped with B37 >>> and B72 consume all available memory (I already pointed that >>> problem out >>> a few weeks ago that some Solaris versions ship browsers >>> which consume >>> as much memory as the size of the downloaded files) and then >>> crash and I >>> really like to update my workspaces to anything newer than >>> B72 for my >>> putback... >> I usually have to pass wget the -O option and specify the filename to >> save it as (otherwise wget tries to use the full URL as the filename >> and bangs out). > > Erm... the problem is AFAIK the issue that the site uses HTTP > Cookie-based authentification (and to be honestly: I know a workaround > for the FireFox/Seamonkey problem but I wish that the download site > would not require that you have at least five years of programming > experience with the networking layer of Gecko just to download the > xx@@@!!! ISO files) ... IMO this should be avoided since it causes > unneccesary pain on the side of the developers.
I think it's b/c of the reporting requirements, but I am looking into it. Derek > > ---- > > Bye, > Roland > -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
