wget Won't D/L from factordb in Ubuntu V16.04

[EdH]

Past annoying!! None of my 16.04 machines work - both 14.04 and 18.04 do work. (I can't upgrade to 18.04 yet due to unresolved ecmpi issues.)


Machine with 16.04 LTS:

$ wget "http://factordb.com/primobatch.php?digits=5000&files=40&start=Generate%20Zip" -O primo5000.zip
--2019-09-07 09:48:23--  http://factordb.com/primobatch.php?digits=5000&files=40&start=Generate%20Zip
Resolving factordb.com (factordb.com)... 116.203.33.155
Connecting to factordb.com (factordb.com)|116.203.33.155|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 0 [text/html]
Saving to: 'primo5000.zip'

primo5000.zip           [ <=>                ]       0  --.-KB/s    in 0s      

2019-09-07 09:48:23 (0.00 B/s) - 'primo5000.zip' saved [0/0]

Machine with 14.04 LTS:

$ wget "http://factordb.com/primobatch.php?digits=5000&files=40&start=Generate%20Zip" -O primo5000.zip
--2019-09-07 09:15:02--  http://factordb.com/primobatch.php?digits=5000&files=40&start=Generate%20Zip
Resolving factordb.com (factordb.com)... 116.203.33.155
Connecting to factordb.com (factordb.com)|116.203.33.155|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/force-download]
Saving to: 'primo5000.zip'

    [  <=>                                  ] 98,124       374KB/s   in 0.3s  

2019-09-07 09:15:02 (374 KB/s) - 'primo5000.zip' saved [98124]

Machine with 18.04 LTS:

$ wget "http://factordb.com/primobatch.php?digits=5000&files=40&start=Generate%20Zip" -O primo5000.zip
--2019-09-07 09:57:39--  http://factordb.com/primobatch.php?digits=5000&files=40&start=Generate%20Zip
Resolving factordb.com (factordb.com)... 116.203.33.155
Connecting to factordb.com (factordb.com)|116.203.33.155|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/force-download]
Saving to: 'primo5000.zip'

primo5000.zip           [  <=>               ]  95.82K   305KB/s    in 0.3s  

2019-09-07 09:57:40 (305 KB/s) - 'primo5000.zip' saved [98124]

I tried downgrading wget, but there weren't really any choices via Synaptic and I know no other means. This is quite reproducible across several machines.

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by EdH

I tried downgrading wget, but there weren't really any choices via Synaptic and I know no other means. This is quite reproducible across several machines.

Have you tried copying the wget executable over from a working version, and running from the current working directory (or place in, for example, /usr/local/bin/)?

This might not work because of incompatible dynamically linked libraries. If it doesn't work, another option would be to compile wget from source.

[EdH]

Originally Posted by chalsall

Have you tried copying the wget executable over from a working version, and running from the current working directory (or place in, for example, /usr/local/bin/)?

This might not work because of incompatible dynamically linked libraries. If it doesn't work, another option would be to compile wget from source.

Thanks - this looked like a great idea - until I tried to compile and install it!

From wget:

Briefly, the shell command './configure && make && make install' should configure, build, and install this package.

BS! It won't './configure' because there's no gnutls. Of course, there's no gnutls in the repository, so it must be acquired and compiled. (I did install all kinds of hints at gnutls from the repository to no avail.)

From gnutls:

Briefly, the shell command './configure && make && make install' should configure, build, and install this package.

But wait, gnutls can't './configure' because it can't find libnettle of its preferred vintage!

[paulunderwood]

Did you search with apt-cache search gnutls?

Something like this should do it:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnutls-bin

[EdH]

Originally Posted by paulunderwood

Did you search with apt-cache search gnutls?

Something like this should do it:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnutls-bin

Yep! I used apt-cache and installed several things that mentioned gnutils:
I installed gnutls-bin - no luck.
Then, I installed libapache2-mod-gnutls - no luck.
Then, I installed python-gnutls hoping dependencies would help - Nope!
Then, I went for gnutls from scratch, but when that failed, I quit!

[M344587487]

Have you tried curl?

[EdH]

Originally Posted by M344587487

Have you tried curl?

Was unaware of curl. Works Great! Much Thanks!

[ldesnogu]

Originally Posted by EdH

Yep! I used apt-cache and installed several things that mentioned gnutils:
I installed gnutls-bin - no luck.
Then, I installed libapache2-mod-gnutls - no luck.
Then, I installed python-gnutls hoping dependencies would help - Nope!
Then, I went for gnutls from scratch, but when that failed, I quit!

You could try libgnutls-dev.

[fivemack]

I found that wget was giving me zero-length files from factordb.com because the web server there was unhappy with its user-agent line, if I did

wget --user-agent='Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_2) AppleWebKit/600.3.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0.3 Safari/600.3.18'

then it worked

[EdH]

Originally Posted by fivemack

I found that wget was giving me zero-length files from factordb.com because the web server there was unhappy with its user-agent line, if I did

wget --user-agent='Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_2)  AppleWebKit/600.3.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0.3 Safari/600.3.18'

then it worked

Bingo! We have a winner! Unfortunately, this seems awfully familiar, now that it's posted.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by ldesnogu

You could try libgnutls-dev.

Thanks, I will try this too, a little later.