[ale] Agh! Can't download RH ISOs

Mike Lockhart backpacker at hikers.net
Fri Feb 28 11:03:02 EST 2003


I'm with Thomas on this one, use wget or links.  wget supports http
based authentication, whereas links supports session cookies and other
authentication methods that lynx does not.

On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 17:43, Joe wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> I just blew $60 on a RH network subscription. So I'm trying to download the
> ISOs so I can burn them. It's a simple request: I want to download the
> images to my home directory, which has a large number of free GB.
> 
> But both Mozilla and Lynx insist upon downloading the images to /tmp
> and moving them to my home directory. That doesn't work; /tmp is on
> a partition with only about .5GB free. Sure, I could move it, but
> what a pain; and I shouldn't *have* to.
> 
> The RHN instructions say, "Please copy the URL for your ISO image into
> this curl command:
> 
> curl -C - -O <the URL>"
> 
> But that doesn't work. When I try it, curl downloads a page that says,
> "Nyah nyah, you aren't authorized, you thieving maggot", or something
> similar. (Actually, it says, "[Blah blah,] your session has expired,
> please sign in again" -- but if I do that and then try the curl
> command on the URLs in the new page, the exact same thing happens.)
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- Joe Knapka
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