[mindwaves]

I want to download a webpage's source code, then use some file parsing commands to extract what I need.

I tried using curl to download a webpage from www.yourfilehost.com/something=stuff.wmv. Everytime I use curl to download that webpage, I get some sort of meta error (not sure exactly, not at my computer right now). I know that I'm not downloading the stuff.wmv, but the source code to later obtain stuff.wmv. But I would like to download the webpage identically how Safari would load the site www.yourfilehost.com/something=stuff.wmv. Any ideas of how this can be done?

[Mithras]

Many possibilities as to what's gone wrong -- perhaps the site is dynamic, and presents different pages depending on the useragent string. (In which case, check out the --user-agent option).

Or perhaps it's doing a redirect (-L option to follow).

Or perhaps it requires cookies to be set -- check your cookies from that site in Safari, and if some are set, try downloading them with --cookie-jar <filename> first, then reading & transmitting them with -b <filename> on a second connection.