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From: Ben Kevan <ben.kevan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: download file
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:32:04 -0700
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To: Bhikkhu Mettavihari <draketools@gmail.com>, Linux Newbie <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>

On Tuesday 16 September 2008 11:18:36 am you wrote:
> hi,
>
> I am on linux
>
> How do I download a file from this site ?
>
> http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv&ak=TY
>
> when I do
> $wget  http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv&ak=TY
> then I get a small file by the name of  "gm.asp?ai=214" with content like
> this.
>
> <asx version="3.0">
>                                 <!-- GMX -->
>                                 <title>CastUP: Unknown Error</title>
>                                 <entry>
>                                         <title>Error: Unknown Error</title>
>                                     <author></author>
>                                         <ref href="http://" />
>                                 </entry>
>                         </asx>
>
>
> Regards
> Mettavihari
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The reason you are getting that is because that's the file you're telling it 
to download. 

wget is working perfectly. 

Are you trying to have wget figure out where the asp file is pointing you to 
download? 


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