#21246 [Fbk->]: Download via wget or other command line utils not possible

ID: 21246 Updated by: iliaa@php.net Reported By: bauchi@bauchi.de -Status: Feedback +Status: Won\'t fix Bug Type: Website problem Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 4.3.0 Assigned To: goba New Comment: The download link takes you to a list of mirrors from which you can download PHP source or Win32 binaries. From the mirrors you can already use wget. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-12-28 11:18:13] goba@php.net Or provide the parameter for wget in quotes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-12-28 11:16:14] goba@php.net Please escape any shell special chars in the download URL, like ? and &, which may be interpreted specially by your shell. Note: maybe reconsider the download URLs, or document the escape requirement for shell programs in the FAQ. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-12-28 09:29:29] bauchi@bauchi.de hi there, due to your new mirror system anyone trying to download php via wget or other command line utils will fail ... i tried it several times today, but i had to use lynx and climb my way through the pages to get the actual release.. you should consider to give people a chance to get the releases through command line utils as well. as you know, many webservers run without a graphical interface such as X ... wget is one of the usual ways in linux to grab files from webservers :-) wget output: yummy:/tmp # wget -s -d -v http://www.php.net/do_download.php?mr=http%3A%2F%2Fde3.php.net%2F&df=php-4.3.0.tar.bz2 [1] 28248 yummy:/tmp # DEBUG output created by Wget 1.6 on linux. parseurl ("http://www.php.net/do_download.php?mr=http%3A%2F%2Fde3.php.net%2F") -> host www.php.net -> opath do_download.php?mr=http%3A%2F%2Fde3.php.net%2F -> dir -> file do_download.php?mr=http://de3.php.net/ -> ndir newpath: /do_download.php?mr=http%3A//de3.php.net/ --16:28:32-- http://www.php.net/do_download.php?mr=http%3A//de3.php.net/ => `do_download.php?mr=http://de3.php.net/.1' Connecting to www.php.net:80... Created fd 3. connected! ---request begin--- GET /do_download.php?mr=http%3A//de3.php.net/ HTTP/1.0 User-Agent: Wget/1.6 Host: www.php.net Accept: */* ---request end--- HTTP request sent, awaiting response... HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 15:23:04 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) PHP/4.3.0-dev X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.0-dev Content-Type: text/html X-Cache: MISS from rs1.php.net Connection: close Length: unspecified [text/html] 0K -> Closing fd 3 16:28:32 (35.16 KB/s) - `do_download.php?mr=http://de3.php.net/.1' saved [36] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=21246&edit=1