[ixus_123]

wget - is there a reason os X got rid of this application? I'm sure I had it in 10.2.

Any thoughts? How do you rate curl - is this the replacement or was it always in os X?

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by ixus_123 

wget - is there a reason os X got rid of this application? I'm sure I had it in 10.2.

Any thoughts? How do you rate curl - is this the replacement or was it always in os X?

Wget is an easy install using Macports.

I believe curl was always included. It won't traverse through websites recursively like wget does though.

Another option is "fetch", which is also available through Macports.

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[besson3c]

Heh.. Unix fetch, not that stupid rabid mongrel stealing somebody's floppy disk.

I hate it when dogs steal my floppy disks.

[Moonray]

With the change from 10.0 to 10.1 Apple replaced wget with curl for some reasons that have been speculated about in this thread.

Fortunately wget can easily be installed either directly from the source code or using one of the OS X binaries that are floating around on the web.

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[ixus_123]

Ooo that's pretty cool.

I hadn't heard of fetch

I'm off to 'man fetch'

Thanks guys

[trolis]

Hello people,

I have a question concerning wget and rapidshare. How I can download from Rapidshare (have a premium account) using command-like tool wget. It seems pretty easy, but I always get only very small file (5KB) something like html. Please correct me if I am doing something in a wrong way:
1. I save a cookie by typing the following in Terminal
wget \
--save-cookies ~/.cookies/rapidshare \
--post-data "login=USERNAME&password=PASSWORD" \
-O - \
https://ssl.rapidshare.com/cgi-bin/premiumzone.cgi \
> /dev/null
2. I try to download by typing this:
wget -c --load-cookies ~/.cookies/rapidshare RapidShare: 1-Click Webhosting

11:45:21 (273.06 KB/s) - `blablabla' saved [5224/5224] While original size of the file is let's say 95 MB

What's wrong? Any ideas?
Thanks for support!