From: Csaba Raduly > I also couldn't reproduce your scenario. > ... > > Since it's reproducible for you, you could (if you're curious) run > wget with the -d (--debug) switch or break out the heavy artillery: > install Wireshark and look at the HTTP headers sent and received by > wget.
Thanx, Csaba, for your interest. Another test with -d is easy enough, so here it is: $ wget -d -O setup-x86_64.exe http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe Setting --output-document (outputdocument) to setup-x86_64.exe DEBUG output created by Wget 1.19.1 on cygwin. Reading HSTS entries from /home/knellis/.wget-hsts --2017-06-27 16:42:01-- http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe Resolving cygwin.com... 209.132.180.131 Caching cygwin.com => 209.132.180.131 Connecting to cygwin.com|209.132.180.131|:80... connected. Created socket 5. Releasing 0x0000000600066420 (new refcount 1). ---request begin--- GET /setup-x86_64.exe HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: Wget/1.19.1 (cygwin) Accept: */* Accept-Encoding: identity Host: cygwin.com Connection: Keep-Alive ---request end--- HTTP request sent, awaiting response... ---response begin--- HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Apache ETag: "16b1f9e-dd613-55161a558184f" Accept-Ranges: bytes Cache-Control: max-age=0 Expires: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 20:40:06 GMT Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Encoding: gzip Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self' http: https: Keep-Alive: timeout=30, max=20 Content-Length: 877562 Content-Type: application/octet-stream Last-Modified: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 16:58:31 GMT Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 20:39:27 GMT Age: 0 Via: 1.1 ironport.tms.local:80 (Cisco-WSA/10.1.0-204) Connection: keep-alive ---response end--- 200 OK Registered socket 5 for persistent reuse. Length: 877562 (857K) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: ‘setup-x86_64.exe’ setup-x86_64.exe 100%[===========================================>] 856.99K --.-KB/s in 0.01s 2017-06-27 16:42:02 (73.9 MB/s) - ‘setup-x86_64.exe’ saved [877562/877562] $ file *.exe setup-x86_64.exe: gzip compressed data, from Unix $ Note the response from the Apache server: > Content-Encoding: gzip Not sure why it would do that. Maybe my wget could be more specific. But my updated script (per advice from others) is working fine. --Ken Nellis -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
