Re: wget fails in Debian Jessie
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On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 07:03:29PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Leslie Rhorer (lrhorer@mygrande.net):
> > On Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 4:00:04 AM UTC-5, Reco wrote:
> >
> > > > Does anyone have any ideas how I could get curl to handle the task, since wget is failing? Some other utility?
> > >
> > > Don't depend on curl. Use good old socat combined with wget:
> >
> > Why? The -L option in curl did the trick [...]
>
> I'm not commenting on this particular case, but the default options in
> curl are a pain in the proverbial.
FWIW, i happily use both (when I want to download recursively a bunch of
pages, following links, wget is the one; when I'm debugging some http
strangeness, it's curl). Interactively and in scripts. And I *never*
would give such an advice as "Don't depend on curl".
And as to "curl's default options ..." -- they may be a pain in *your*
proverbial; that doesn't make them a pain in everyone's proverbial.
I'm perfectly fine with them.
All generalizations suck ;-)
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