[PLUG] wget fails to connect, firefox connects

Carl Karsten carl at personnelware.com
Thu Apr 26 14:37:18 UTC 2018


On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 9:21 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>   I was sent a URL to download a file and passed the URL to wget, which
> thought about the task before giving up and telling me the network (in South
> America) was not reachable so it could not connect.
>
>   Pasting the URL in firefox immediately initiated downloading the file.
>
>   As a non-expert in wget I'm curious why it might fail while the browser
> succeeds.
>
>   Here's the URL:
> <http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openjfx/libopenjfx-java_8u161-b12-1_all.deb>
>

Works for me ;/

carl at twist:/tmp$ wget
http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openjfx/libopenjfx-java_8u161-b12-1_all.deb
--2018-04-26 09:33:50--
http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openjfx/libopenjfx-java_8u161-b12-1_all.deb
Resolving ftp.br.debian.org (ftp.br.debian.org)... 200.236.31.3,
2801:82:80ff:8000::4
Connecting to ftp.br.debian.org
(ftp.br.debian.org)|200.236.31.3|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 9916696 (9.5M) [application/x-debian-package]
Saving to: ‘libopenjfx-java_8u161-b12-1_all.deb’

libopenjfx-java_8u1 100%[===================>]   9.46M  2.34MB/s    in 4.0s

2018-04-26 09:33:55 (2.34 MB/s) -
‘libopenjfx-java_8u161-b12-1_all.deb’ saved [9916696/9916696]


One explanation is you are behind an http proxy that FF knows about
but wget does not.


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Carl K



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