Re: url-fetch with referer

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:

> For instance
>
>   wget https://foo/bar.zip
>
> fails, while
>
>   wget --referer https://foo https://foo/bar.zip
>
> works.

I say that it’s a buggy web site.  :-)

More generally, we’ve added a couple of HTTP headers for issues that
were relatively common.  We could easily fix this one, but maybe you
could first talk to the webmasters, because requiring ‘Referer’ sounds
obnoxious; WDYT?

(Note that in the meantime you can always work around the problem by
writing your own fixed-output derivation.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.