Peculiar download problem :-(

Hi everybody,
I am facing a strange problem with wget. I am trying to download fonts
from a website. i.e I pass the '-A ttf' option to wget. I am going
through a proxy. I cannot download anything from that site. The
response is shown below:

http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts/
=> `www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts/index.html'
Connecting to <my-proxy-server>... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
ERROR 403: Forbidden.

Removing www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts/index.html since it
should be rejected.
unlink: No such file or directory

FINISHED
Downloaded: 0 bytes in 0 files

However, if I give the exact filename, i.e
http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free...a/AjaxFont.ttf to wget, then it
downloads the font file without any problems.

Can anyone please tell me why this behavior exists and what is the
work-around for downloading those ttf files?

Thanks in advance.

Regards.

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> Hi everybody,
> I am facing a strange problem with wget. I am trying to download fonts
> from a website. i.e I pass the '-A ttf' option to wget. I am going
> through a proxy. I cannot download anything from that site. The
> response is shown below:
>
> http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts/
> => `www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts/index.html'
> Connecting to <my-proxy-server>... connected.
> Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
> ERROR 403: Forbidden.
>
> Removing www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts/index.html since it
> should be rejected.
> unlink: No such file or directory
>
> FINISHED
> Downloaded: 0 bytes in 0 files
>
> However, if I give the exact filename, i.e
> http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free...a/AjaxFont.ttf to wget, then it
> downloads the font file without any problems.
>
> Can anyone please tell me why this behavior exists and what is the
> work-around for downloading those ttf files?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards.

It's not a problem with wget, but rather a problem with the way you're
trying to get the files. The server won't make a list of the files in the
directory /free-fonts (hence the 403) so you can't use the -A option.


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Andy Zhang

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