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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting BASH scripting - Preventing wget messed downloaded files Post 302821763 by alister on Saturday 15th of June 2013 12:34:06 PM
Old 06-15-2013
That annoying website is using javascript to launch a cascade of redirects.

Starting at:
Code:
Referer: http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-linux/downloading/?type=suse32/skype-4.1.0.20-suse.i586.rpm

Leads to:
Code:
Location: http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-4.2.0.11-suse.i586.rpm

Note that the version delivered is not the same as the version requested. They redirect to the latest version, but you can hack the Location header's URL to fetch the originally requested version.

By the way, a little time with Firefox or Chrome developer tools is very useful when diagnosing these annoyances.

Regards,
Alister
 

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RPMSPEC(8)						      System Manager's Manual							RPMSPEC(8)

NAME
rpmspec - RPM Spec Tool SYNOPSIS
QUERYING SPEC FILES: rpmspec {-q|--query} [select-options] [query-options] SPEC_FILE ... select-options [--rpms] [--srpms] query-options [--qf,--queryformat QUERYFMT] [--target TARGET_PLATFORM] QUERY OPTIONS The general form of an rpm spec query command is rpm {-q|--query} [select-options] [query-options] You may specify the format that the information should be printed in. To do this, you use the --qf|--queryformat QUERYFMT option, followed by the QUERYFMT format string. See rpm(8) for details. SELECT OPTIONS --rpms Operate on the binary package header(s). --srpm Operate on the source package header(s). SEE ALSO
popt(3), rpm(8), rpmdb(8), rpmkeys(8), rpmsign(8), rpm2cpio(8), rpmbuild(8), rpmspec --help - as rpm supports customizing the options via popt aliases it's impossible to guarantee that what's described in the manual matches what's available. http://www.rpm.org/ <URL:http://www.rpm.org/> AUTHORS
Marc Ewing <marc@redhat.com> Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com> Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> Red Hat, Inc 29 October 2010 RPMSPEC(8)
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