Making `wget` not save the page
You can redirect the output of wget to /dev/null (or NUL on Windows): wget http://www.example.com -O /dev/null The file won’t be written to disk, but it will be downloaded.
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how to download the ssl certificate from a website?
In order to download the certificate, you need to use the client built into openssl like so: echo -n | openssl s_client -connect $HOST:$PORTNUMBER -servername $SERVERNAME \ | openssl x509 > /tmp/$SERVERNAME.cert That will save the certificate to /tmp/$SERVERNAME.cert. The -servername is used to select the correct certificate when multiple are presented, in the case … Read more
Downloading Java JDK on Linux via wget is shown license page instead
Works as of December 23rd, 2021 for JDK 17 Works as of July 27th, 2021 for JDK 16 Works as of November 5th, 2020 for JDK 15 Works as of 07-11-2020 for JDK 14 PS: Alf added this ( me ) 🙂 this, I couldn’t figured out how to just commented at the end… Enjoy … Read more
wget not recognized as internal or external command
wget is a third-party program that doesn’t come bundled with Windows, so you need to explicitly install it in order to use it. You can find (one of) the Windows versions here: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm You will need to add the path of the wget.exe file to your PATH environment variable in order to call the executable as in the batch file above … Read more
wget: unable to resolve host address `http’
I am getting this strange thing on my Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit machine when I do a wget I have encountered this problem earlier when I got it for any web pages (and not http), which required me to add my nameserver to /etc/resolv.conf. However, here that doesn’t seem to be the problem, instead it is … Read more
How to specify the download location with wget?
From the manual page: So you need to add -P /tmp/cron_test/ (short form) or –directory-prefix=/tmp/cron_test/ (long form) to your command. Also note that if the directory does not exist it will get created.
wget returns “Unable to establish SSL connection”
This is most likely due to a TLS version mismatch from client to server-side. Have a look here: Unable to establish SSL connection upon wget on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS EDIT: Upon further digging into the problem, it could also be because of a wrong system time or an old version of wget.
How do I completely mirror a web page?
If your just looking to run a command and get a copy of a web site, use the tools that others have suggested, such as wget, curl, or some of the GUI tools. I use my own personal tool that I call webreaper (that’s not the Windows WebReaper though. There are a few Perl programs … Read more
Unable to establish SSL connection upon wget on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
you must be using old version of wget i had same issue. i was using wget 1.12.so to solve this issue there are 2 way: Update wget or use curl
Post request with Wget?
Wget currently doesn’t not support “multipart/form-data” data. –post-file is not for transmitting files as form attachments, it expects data with the form: key=value&otherkey=example. It is actually possible to post other formats (json) if you send the corresponding header. –post-data and –post-file work the same way: the only difference is that –post-data allows you to specify … Read more