Hello All,

This link https://uofi.app.box.com/s/3llh4jf6pza3ifz8n62t contains a button that will download a 1.3Gb file. Now how can I do the same download remotely on to another machine using a console? [i.e. no -X option to use firefox or any GUI]

For example this file can be downloaded as such
wget http://www.ncu.edu.tw/~ncu25352/Uplo...2738561744.pdf

But the same does not work for the first link.

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Right, and it won't. That button is a javascript/form action button that triggers an event on that page, and is NOT a link to an object. If you can dig through the source (AND that source doesn't require some sort of permission/authentication from that button/form), you can do it.

Use some CLI web client as links, use it in a screen session so you can log out while the download is in progress.

I looked into its source that there was no useful href tag in the html code. I suppose this cannot be done.

Anything can be done without a UI, just a matter of figuring out how - when you click buttons and such on web pages you're just sending data to the server. That data doesn't care in the slightest about a UI. If nothing else it's possible to monitor the traffic going out on your NIC to that site and see exactly what it's sending it. The server on the other end doesn't typically care if it's firefox requesting the data or some tool you just cooked up (though in the event that it does care, you can always pretend to be FF).

Anywho, when you click the button, after the script finishes it points you to the URL to download, which is the source URL in your 'current downloads' section. I'd suggest using that. The hash makes it pretty unreadable but I copied/pasted it below. When I copy/pate that into the URL of any browser it seems to download just fine. I would try snagging that with wget, but I don't have wget on this computer. If that doesn't work you'll have to figure out exactly what the exchange is between your browser and that URL when your browser contacts it...wireshark can help with that if you're stuck.

https://dl.boxcloud.com/bc/2/4a1f779...be8a986ee937a/

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That did the trick. I got the link from Chrome's recent downloads by starting it on my laptop. Later wget picked that link w/o problem. The file's name is index.html but it is 1.3Gb. Will just rename it later.

Thanks all!

Glad to hear it .