Wget: Error 403- Can I get around this?

ajbird · 04-19-2011, 04:02 AM

+1 thanks

after all this time (and for no apparent reason) wget stopped working with 401 errors using -U firefox fixed the problem.

fjordz · 08-13-2015, 01:48 AM

Agree! Using -U firefox actually solved this problem. Thanks!

dodle · 10-05-2015, 04:52 PM

I just wanted to post what worked for me:

The site I was trying to download from (http://www.dlldump.com/) requires a referer. So just adding a working URL to wget's "referer" option fixed the problem:

Code:

$ wget --referer="http://www.dlldump.com/" http://www.dlldump.com/zip/dllfiles/M/MLANG.zip

Here is the original error:

Code:

$ wget http://www.dlldump.com/zip/dllfiles/M/MLANG.zip
--2015-10-05 14:53:08--  http://www.dlldump.com/zip/dllfiles/M/MLANG.zip
Resolving www.dlldump.com (www.dlldump.com)... 162.159.240.158, 162.159.241.158, 2400:cb00:2048:1::a29f:f19e, ...
Connecting to www.dlldump.com (www.dlldump.com)|162.159.240.158|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2015-10-05 14:53:08 ERROR 403: Forbidden.