Hello Matthew, On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 09:59 +1000, Matthew Cengia wrote:
On 2012-06-17 22:45, Mark Trickett wrote:
Hello All,
As are others, I am a Linux Journal subscriber, and they have discontinued the print edition, providing a PDF from the web instead. I get a monthly email, with a link, and clicking on that brings up a page in FireFox, and an auto start download with the FireFox download manager. Sometimes it "completes" short of the whole file, useless, but usually I can get with multiple tries. This month, no such luck.
Hi Mark,
Firstly, I suggest you try this: http://www.linuxjournal.com/digital. Alternatively, in the current LJ issue (ironically) one of the letters suggests that a 'wget' of the URL in the email works fine as long as you enclose the URL in double-quotes:
Have visited that URL, and can copy and paste the appropriate URL for the particular issue, complete with PHP code. I have done with single quotes also. There appear to be problems with the network, even wget was failing somewhere up to 5% of the file. It gave up after twenty tries, with one early effort getting a peak of 9%. I have suspicions about Telstra Big Pond. wget did work, perfectly a little later, when I grabbed the podcast of ABC RN Science Show from Sunday past, about Alan Turing.
Bruno wrote:
Here is how I do it:
* I click on the link received via e-mail.
* In the browser that opens, I copy the entire address bar (via Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C). The URL is something like "http://download.linuxjournal.com/pdf/get-doc.php?code=...".
* I then type wget and paste the URL, with one very important precaution though. The URL must be enclosed in double quotes, as the parameters are separated by an ampersand (&), which has a special meaning under UNIX/Linux.
It works like a charm! So, if you have the chance to pass that information on to Bob, that would be great!
Alternatively:
Jordi Clariana wrote:
I was reading the April 2012 issue, and > regarding the letter from Bob Johnson > titled "Linux Journal Download with > wget?", I think I may have a solution: > the cliget extension for Firefox > (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/ > firefox/addon/cliget).
Hope this helps.
Have also added that firefox addon, but need to sort out the invocation options for wget. I _MUST_ use the --no-proxy option to get anywhere, hence suspicion about Telstra Big Pond. This still does not answer why getting podcast from ABC in OZ does work. Regards, Mark Trickett