[ale] Agh! Can't download RH ISOs

Synco Gibraldter synco at xodarap.net
Wed Mar 5 21:05:09 EST 2003



wget...

if that doesn't work, one of the main features of curl is the ability to
send cookie data, so you can fake an 'authorized' connection and download
it with curl if you need to, but wget has always worked for everything
i've needed to download and i don't think it uses a temporary directory.

also, why not just use ftp?  i'm pretty sure sunsite would have some
redhat isos, though i'm not a redhat user so i don't know for sure.



On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, 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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