wget ERROR 403: Forbidden. (was. ... Re: sc, i.e., spread sheet calculator using ncurses)

[Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz>]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 09:05:52PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote:
> On 07/13/2012 08:29 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 01:14:09PM -0500, hvw59601 wrote:
> >>
> >> http://www.picpaste.com/slsc-1-MDWRIfxK.png
> > 
> > WTF
> > 
> > tal% wget "http://www.picpaste.com/slsc-1-MDWRIfxK.png";
> > --2012-07-14 06:26:59--  http://www.picpaste.com/slsc-1-MDWRIfxK.png
> > Resolving www.picpaste.com (www.picpaste.com)... 87.239.128.90,
> > 2a00:12d8:100:90::80
> > Connecting to www.picpaste.com (www.picpaste.com)|87.239.128.90|:80...
> > connected.
> > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
> > 2012-07-14 06:27:00 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
> > 
> 
> Seems they do not like wget's user-agent:
> 
> /tmp$ wget --user-agent=Test http://www.picpaste.com/slsc-1-MDWRIfxK.png
> --2012-07-13 21:05:17--  http://www.picpaste.com/slsc-1-MDWRIfxK.png
> Resolving www.picpaste.com... 87.239.128.90, 2a00:12d8:100:90::80
> Connecting to www.picpaste.com|87.239.128.90|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 5959 (5.8K) [text/html]
> Saving to: “slsc-1-MDWRIfxK.png”
> 
> 100%[======================================>] 5,959       --.-K/s   in
> 0.01s
> 
> 2012-07-13 21:05:17 (517 KB/s) - “slsc-1-MDWRIfxK.png” saved [5959/5959]

Thanks!

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