Wget is returning an html page instead of original file

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In my case the problem is with SourceForge.net. Actually I was trying to download these files:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxpython/files/wxPython/2.9.4.0/wxPython-src-2.9.4.0.tar.bz2/download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxpython/files/wxPython/2.9.4.0/wxPython-docs-2.9.4.0.tar.bz2/download

Something did not went good, so I logged wget, and the log file was:

--2012-08-21 09:52:17--  http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxpython/files/wxPython/2.9.4.0/wxPython-src-2.9.4.0.tar.bz2/download
Resolving sourceforge.net... 216.34.181.60
Connecting to sourceforge.net|216.34.181.60|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 18846 (18K) [text/html]
Saving to: `download'

     0K .......... ........                                   100% 6.30K=2.9s

2012-08-21 09:52:25 (6.30 KB/s) - `download' saved [18846/18846]

--2012-08-21 09:52:25--  http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxpython/files/wxPython/2.9.4.0/wxPython-docs-2.9.4.0.tar.bz2/download
Connecting to sourceforge.net|216.34.181.60|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

    The file is already fully retrieved; nothing to do.

FINISHED --2012-08-21 09:52:28--
Downloaded: 1 files, 18K in 2.9s (6.30 KB/s)

As you can see in this log file, I end up in getting a single HTML file 🙁

This shows that wget doesn't waits on the page to let webpage to redirect it to another location, and it downloads the page itself.

Question:

I want those two files, with wget, how can I?

Best Answer

It seems redirection is disabled at your wget, try specifying --max-redirect=2 or a higher number. You probably also want to specify --trust-server-names to allow wget to update the file name after redirection, otherwise the downloaded files will still be called download.

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