* Nick <suckless-...@njw.me.uk> [2011-11-04 19:30]:
> I'll look myself, but if anyone else finds
> one, please let us know.
I've rarely had troubles downloading anything, maybe beacause I rarely do so
from crappy places; Untl recently when I repeatedly got this on arxiv.org
trying to download a pdf (dillo and others handle it correctly):
--2011-11-05 10:48:47-- http://arxiv.org/pdf/nlin/0408040
Resolving arxiv.org... 128.84.158.119
Connecting to arxiv.org|128.84.158.119|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2011-11-05 10:48:49 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
my DOWNLOAD looks like this:
#define DOWNLOAD(d) { \
.v = (char *[]){ "/bin/sh", "-c", \
"st -e sh -c \"wget " \
"--no-check-certificate --load-cookies ~/.surf/cookies.txt
'$0'; " \
"pwd; exec ${SHELL}\"", d, NULL } }
Hm, writing this, I figured out the arxiv folks are afraid of mass deonloads
and DoS and just look into the user agent. So adding --user-agent foo solved
the problem.
I post this anyway, someone might find it useful. Of course, something like
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.2+ (KHTML, like Gecko,
surf-"VERSION") Safari/531.2+" would make more sense. Don't know how to use the
static char useragent in the macro.
Thanks for leading me to that :o)
cheers,
--
stanio_
