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 ?

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Bye,
Roland

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