On January 4, 2011 22:32 , Carlos S <neubyr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Recently I was trying to download a package using wget, but the website prevented access to it. I tried --user-agent option but it didn't work either. So I was curious to know what strategy this web admin must have implemented.
Without an example URL, I can only speculate, but the ideas that come to mind first are denying the download unless a cookie is set (you could get quite complex with this, such as setting the cookie via JavaScript, which wget won't execute), checking the referrer header, or other JavaScript based checks.
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