Re: wget vs curl (was ... Re: debian 8)
Quoting Reco (recoverym4n@gmail.com):
> On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 12:37:56 +1300
> Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 08:22:11PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> > > If it does not help - download the page with wget or curl (last one is
> > > preferrable for this)
> >
> > What can curl do that wget can't do?
>
> $ apt-get show wget | grep Dep
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.11), libgcrypt11 (>= 1.4.5), libgnutls26 (>= 2.12.17-0), libgpg-error0 (>= 1.10), libidn11 (>= 1.13), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info
>
> $ apt-get show curl | grep Dep
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libcurl3 (= 7.26.0-1+wheezy12), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
>
> $ apt-cache show libcurl3 | grep Dep
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.11), libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.10+dfsg~), libidn11 (>= 1.13), libldap-2.4-2 (>= 2.4.7), librtmp0 (>= 2.3), libssh2-1 (>= 1.2.6), libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
> Pre-Depends: multiarch-support
>
> It boils down to the fact that wget is linked against gnults and curl
> is linked against openssl. Nothing that rebuild of a package can't
> change, of course :)
>
> And openssl is more tolerable to:
> 1) Self-signed certificates.
> 2) Mixed support of SSL3.0 and TLS1.0.
> 3) Disabled SSL3.0 and enabled TLS1.0 only.
>
> Of those, only 3) somewhat applies to https://www.debian.org, but
> people these days have really strange ideas of configuring TLS.
> Especially if said people are allowed to configure web-servers.
>
> So, in the case of doubt - you use curl or rebuild wget against
> openssl. It's that simple.
So I typed curl in place of wget and...
jessie $ curl http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/jessie_di_rc2/i386/iso-cd/debian-jessie-DI-rc2-i386-netinst.iso
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>302 Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Found</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="http://gensho.acc.umu.se/cdimage/jessie_di_rc2/i386/iso-cd/debian-jessie-DI-rc2-i386-netinst.iso";>here</a>.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.4.12 (Unix) Server at cdimage.debian.org Port
80</address>
</body></html>
jessie $
OK, let's try wget...
jessie $ wget http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/jessie_di_rc2/i386/iso-cd/debian-jessie-DI-rc2-i386-netinst.iso
--2015-04-07 18:48:38-- http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/jessie_di_rc2/i386/iso-cd/debian-jessie-DI-rc2-i386-netinst.iso
Resolving cdimage.debian.org (cdimage.debian.org)... 130.239.18.163, 130.239.18.165, 130.239.18.173, ...
Connecting to cdimage.debian.org (cdimage.debian.org)|130.239.18.163|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://gensho.acc.umu.se/cdimage/jessie_di_rc2/i386/iso-cd/debian-jessie-DI-rc2-i386-netinst.iso
[following]
--2015-04-07 18:48:38-- http://gensho.acc.umu.se/cdimage/jessie_di_rc2/i386/iso-cd/debian-jessie-DI-rc2-i386-netinst.iso
Resolving gensho.acc.umu.se (gensho.acc.umu.se)... 130.239.18.176,
2001:6b0:e:2018::176
Connecting to gensho.acc.umu.se
(gensho.acc.umu.se)|130.239.18.176|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 319815680 (305M) [application/x-iso9660-image]
Saving to: ‘debian-jessie-DI-rc2-i386-netinst.iso’
debian-jessie-DI-rc2-i386-n 100%[===========================================>] 305.00M 1.82MB/s in 2m 18s
2015-04-07 18:50:56 (2.22 MB/s) - ‘debian-jessie-DI-rc2-i386-netinst.iso’ saved [319815680/319815680]
jessie $
So I guess I need an option. man curl
Hmm, over 2000 lines. Tomorrow maybe...
Cheers,
David.
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