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Firefox on osx download limitation?

I'm trying to download a large file (exactly 2427095245) using firefox, the file cuts of at exactly 2GB. Verified twice now (yah, it's a long weekend).

So it appears that firefox limits the download file size to 2GB? I mean.. what the hell..

Posted by kasia on May 29, 2005 02:20 PM |

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What, no wget in that silly OS ?:)

Posted by: Nefilim | May 30, 2005 01:43 PM

Oh, I have wget... but I had to be logged into the website for this download and it was totally not worth writing a script for.

Posted by: kasia | May 30, 2005 01:52 PM

Can't you pass login info via http://user:pass@site.com or point wget to cookies or something? Definately a sucky problem though :(

Posted by: A | May 31, 2005 01:30 PM

wget does support that login scheme...

Posted by: Isaack | June 1, 2005 05:35 PM

Hi,
wget does support http authentication. I have used it a couple of times when I need to download large files from password protected sites.

From the wget manual (http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html):

--http-user=user
--http-passwd=password
Specify the username user and password password on an HTTP server. According to the type of the challenge, Wget will encode them using either the basic (insecure) or the digest authentication scheme.

Another way to specify username and password is in the URL itself (see URL Format). Either method reveals your password to anyone who bothers to run ps. To prevent the passwords from being seen, store them in .wgetrc or .netrc, and make sure to protect those files from other users with chmod. If the passwords are really important, do not leave them lying in those files either--edit the files and delete them after Wget has started the download.

Hope this helps.

- Suramya

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