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Re: Suitable-to-task Debian spreadsheet software



Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 10:44:36 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > [1]
> > https://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/file/TFP-2021-Disaggregated-Market-Basket.xlsx  
> 
> I was unable to download this with wget -- it just hung for a while.
> But when I pasted the URL directly into a web browser, the browser was
> able to download it.

I was interested so I tried wget with the same result as you. I found
adding -U "" in the command line caused it to work and download the
file. The way it worked was interesting. First came a '302 Moved
Temporarily' that referred to fns-prod.azureedge.us which leaves me not
knowing whether to blame the US Gov or Microsoft :) Though my money's
on the US Gov.


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