[Tfug] Knoppix

[Anthony Steckman]

Using wget here:

humbl at secretweapon:~/tmp$ wget -t 0 
http://www.swfo.arizona.edu/~hmcgregor/KNOPPIX_V3.3-2003-11-19-EN.iso
--16:16:38-- 
http://www.swfo.arizona.edu/%7Ehmcgregor/KNOPPIX_V3.3-2003-11-19-EN.iso
            => `KNOPPIX_V3.3-2003-11-19-EN.iso.1'
Resolving www.swfo.arizona.edu... 150.135.81.227
Connecting to www.swfo.arizona.edu[150.135.81.227]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 733,929,472 [text/plain]

  0% [                                     ] 19,895         8.66K/s

I stopped my original download attempt as soon as I noticed the 
"text/plain" content type...

To the best of my knowledge, there isn't a way to get wget to ignore the 
MIME type and initiate a regular binary transfer (when downloading from 
an HTTP server) but if anyone's got a trick for this I'd be glad to hear 
it.

I've never succesfully downloaded or uploaded a binary file in a plain 
text or ASCII transfer mode.

An interesting side note:

The Purdue mirror is setup the same way. As they also offer an ftp 
mirror, however, I have at this point been able to initiate a binary 
transfer under wget.

I've reported the problem to their Web master.

Something funny a friend said to me the other day about a similar 
problem with a server I have control over;

"I tried to download your file but when I click on the link it's like 
The Matrix. What am I doing wrong?"


Harry McGregor wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 14:41, Anthony Steckman wrote:
> 
>>The MIME type application/iso has not been set for ISO files found on 
>>this server. No problem for IE users but not nice for people using third 
>>party browsers or wget.
> 
> 
> Ok, will try and set it sometime soon.  It has never caused a problem
> for me with wget, and I don't trust large downloads to browsers at all,
> so I never tested it under netscape/mozilla.
> 
> 			Harry
> 
> 
>>
>>Harry McGregor wrote:
>>
>>>I am pulling the latest one from Purdue over I2 right now (going to try
>>>it at work later today).
>>>
>>>It will be on a local website shortly, as I am getting 1.4 MByte/sec
>>>download.  You can probably start your download at about 12:10 today.
>>>
>>>I will put the MD5SUM up when the download is done.
>>>
>>>http://www.swfo.arizona.edu/~hmcgregor/KNOPPIX_V3.3-2003-11-19-EN.iso
>>>
>>>md5sum
>>>
>>>http://www.swfo.arizona.edu/~hmcgregor/KNOPPIX_V3.3-2003-11-19-EN.md5sum
>>>
>>>			Harry
>>>
>>>
>>>On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 11:40, Steve Bowers wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Is there a local mirror that would have a copy of the latest Knoppix iso? 
>>>>I'm currently logged into Purdue and getting a smokin' 5KB/s. 
>>>>
>>>>Steve
>>
>>