hi! On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Yogesh Hasabnis <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 Kulkarni Shantanu wrote : >>* Yogesh Hasabnis <[email protected]> [090330 17:13]: >> > >> > >> > Login?Template=esd_login_template&GAREASONCODE=-1& >> > >> >> > APPID=DownloadsProd1&URI=http:%2F%2Fdownloads.somesite.com%2FESDWeb%2FReleaseDetail.eo% >> > >> > ?methodTocCall=download%25: File name too long >> > >> > >> > >> > Can you suggest some pointers or docs for getting around this problem ? >> >>Can you try, >>wget -c -O small_fname.dat '<your long url>' >> >>Note - it is capital "O" >> >>Shantanu >>-- > > > Hi All, > > Thanks for all the suggestions. Actually there is one more issue involved > .... that of https authentication. When I do the download from the URL I am > redirected at https://access.somesite.com . > > I will do some searching around on the net and will get back if I can make it > work. > > Thanks All, > Yogesh
you can use curl to do the authentication. better write a shell script. inside the shell script use curl to authenticate & then wget to download the relevant files . -- Regards, Arun Tomar blog: http://linuxguy.in website: http://www.solutionenterprises.co.in _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
