Sites like http://betazone.ecomstation.com/ make me furious. When I
mouseover a link to a file I want to download, I want to see the URL of the
file I want to download. Here, as in many other places, I don't see that,
but
instead e.g. http://betazone.ecomstation.com/fileviewer.php?file_id=47 
which is not the filename the page shows. When I click that kind of link, I
expect to be taken to another page where the real URL is, so that when the
automatic download starts, I can kill it and find the real URL, which I
then copy and paste into wget. Here instead, SM immediately starts to
download. Browsers are not download apps, so I never use them and wish
sites
would quit doing this stuff. I want the file as an archive[1], which no
browser I've ever discovered is capable of doing. When I try to paste that
php URL into wget using quotes, it downloads a zero byte file with the name
of the link instead of the actual file, unlike typical of other pages like
asp or cgi, which get me the desired file. How do I get the page to let me
wget the archive instead of non-identical garbage?

[1]Archive - exactly the same as exists on the source, with matching
timestamp, as opposed to something different, as indicated by a timestamp
matching the download time of some file.
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have, get understanding. Esteem her, and she will exalt you;
embrace her, and she will honor you."		Proverbs 4:7-8 NIV

 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409

Felix Miata  ***  http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/


 
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