Re: "403 forbidden" when recursive download

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Boerge Haga <etobhag@eto.ericsson.se> writes:

> Boerge Haga wrote:
> > 
> > I wonder if there is any way to circumvent the problems
> > that arise when you're trying to download multiple files
> > from a site by using e.g. webmirror (or I guess lwp-rget
> > would do the same) and the remote server responds by saying:
> > =================
> > 403 Forbidden
> > 
> > Your client does not have permission to get URL
> > /somedir/somewhere/ from this server.
> > =================
> 
> To be more precise on my question here:
> I don't need to be able to see all the files in a directory
> listing, but to me it seems that software like webmirror
> and lwp-rget need to be able to see the directory listing
> in order to work? 

No, they just follow links.  The directory listing is usually
unavailable through HTTP servers.

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Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

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