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.
BTW: Would be there any (legal, management or something else) objections if I create a small shell script which accepts username+password and then automagically downloads the ISO images ? ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
