I posted this before, but perhaps it didn't go to the list. I don't
understand why you bother with wget or Lynx when there is a much simpler
way. Actually, there are two simple ways. One is to use Firefox, but that
requires X and isn't practical. The other is to use a good ftp client, like
lftp or ncftp. Just navigate to the project directory you want and download
away. The only drawback is that it's a bit slower for people in the US.
ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/sourceforge/
That path might not be correct, it might be under mirrors/ or similar. Once
you find it, change to the project directory, as follows:
cd n/nv/nvda
cd m/ma/maximus
You can then download files as you normally would with ftp and no
Javascript. I downloaded the latest NVDA that way. It also is a lot easier
than using their project browser to determine the file listings.
On 4/8/2013 12:17 PM, Martin McCormick wrote:
I beat the system a couple of nights ago when I made the
same discovery you describe when trying to download something
from sourceforge using lynx. I could tell it had actually
downloaded but lynx couldn't finish the process. I wonder what
non-existant problem somebody cured with this design?
What I did was to cd to /tmp/and then find the temporary
directory lynx created and inside that was the temp file just
waiting for the last few steps to complete which now never
happens.
I copied that file out in to my directory and it did
work but It has that sulphur smell of javascript.
It sounds like using wget is a much better solution.
I had tried to use curl but not that hard so curl might
also work. Thanks for the tip.
Jude DaShiell writes:
It used to be we could use a browser and download things from
sourceforge.net and lynx even worked. That's not the case any longer.
All that happens now is you get 10 redirects and get thrown off the page.
What does work though, is to copy the sourceforge.net url from what would
be where the file was going to be pulled from and drop back to the local
box and run wget -b and paste the url in. Apparently wget is able to get
these files and the bonus is the file names aren't mutilated as they are
when a browser is used to download them from sourceforge.net.
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