[ale] Agh! Can't download RH ISOs

[Mike Lockhart]

Well, if they're using one time auth url's, then I'd recommend using
Links, but cURL does have https and http redirect support, http auth,
and form post capacity, so it should work for you.

- mike

On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 09:06, Joe wrote:
> Mike Lockhart <backpacker at hikers.net> writes:
> 
> > I'm with Thomas on this one, use wget or links.  wget supports http
> > based authentication, whereas links supports session cookies and other
> > authentication methods that lynx does not.
> 
> Lynx seemed to work fine for this, other than using /tmp when I
> didn't want it to (problem solvable using TMPDIR env var).
> 
> The really aggravating thing is that RHN explicitly recommends using
> curl -- and it doesn't work. That's the kind of thing I'd expect from
> Microshaft. Maybe I have a too-old version of curl, but I'd be
> surprised - I'm using 7.9.4, which shipped with Slack 8.1.
> 
> I assume that by suggesting wget, you're implying I could just
> give wget my userid and password? Would that still work, given
> that:
> 
> (a) This is an https site, and
> 
> (b) RH apparently generates a new URL for the ISOs every time you open
> the page containing the ISO links, and that URL encodes some security
> information?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Joe Knapka
> 
> > On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 17:43, Joe wrote:
> > > Hey folks,
> > > 
> > > I just blew $60 on a RH network subscription. So I'm trying to download the
> > > ISOs so I can burn them. It's a simple request: I want to download the
> > > images to my home directory, which has a large number of free GB.
> > > 
> > > But both Mozilla and Lynx insist upon downloading the images to /tmp
> > > and moving them to my home directory. That doesn't work; /tmp is on
> > > a partition with only about .5GB free. Sure, I could move it, but
> > > what a pain; and I shouldn't *have* to.
> > > 
> > > The RHN instructions say, "Please copy the URL for your ISO image into
> > > this curl command:
> > > 
> > > curl -C - -O <the URL>"
> > > 
> > > But that doesn't work. When I try it, curl downloads a page that says,
> > > "Nyah nyah, you aren't authorized, you thieving maggot", or something
> > > similar. (Actually, it says, "[Blah blah,] your session has expired,
> > > please sign in again" -- but if I do that and then try the curl
> > > command on the URLs in the new page, the exact same thing happens.)
> > > 
> > > Any suggestions?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > -- Joe Knapka
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