Re: [fink-core] Fwd: Re: Best option to select a particular mirror for wget/curl download

[Max H. <ma...@qu...>]

Am 27.09.2011 um 01:06 schrieb Alexander Hansen:

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> On 9/26/11 5:04 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>> I asked SF.net about how to replace our ailing mirror list with 
>> something that still contains geographic information and here's
>> the response.  It looks like we'd need to do some additional coding
>> to implement it.
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> I've also been playing around with Using
> "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/<project path>".  This works
> with wget, but not curl:
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> curl --connect-timeout 30 -f -L -A 'fink/0.31.2' -O
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/octave/Octave\ Forge\
> Packages/R2009-06-07/multicore-0.2.15.tar.gz
>  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
> Current
>                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
> Speed
>  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:--
> - --:--:--     0
> curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 400
> ### execution of curl failed, exit code 22
> Downloading the file "multicore-0.2.15.tar.gz" failed.

This error is caused by the spaces in the filename. Wget automatically converts these to %20, but curl doesn't.

Once I replaced the spaces manually by %20, curl worked just fine. A simple sed or perl statement can of course automate this. Note that wget will accept the URL with %20, too. So maybe we should URL encode URLs before passing them to the downloader tool?

Bye,
Max