[postal2mac] my download failed 3 times already...

[Felix Wandler]

curl also could not complete the download:
curl: (18) transfer closed with 621172479 bytes remaining to read

:-(
Its the fifth time i tried to download the beta, tested with curl, 
safari, internet explorer and co.


Am 22.05.2004 um 16:30 schrieb hotblack:

> There are two commandline utilities you can use that should cope with 
> interruptions better than Safari, curl and wget. curl comes as default 
> with OS X, wget is downloadable as part of Fink, on it's own, or 
> compile it yourself from source.
> Simple instructions for curl.
> - Open up Terminal.app
> - Navigate to the folder you want to save the file to, eg cd 
> ~/downloads/
> - Enter the following command:
> curl -u postal2mac:p33p33Hz 
> http://0day.icculus.org/private/postal2beta/postal2-mac-beta1.dmg -o 
> postal2-mac-beta1.dmg
> You can also miss out the username and password and curl will prompt 
> you for them.
>
> If you've got wget the syntax is wget --http-user=<username> 
> --http-passwd=<password> <full path of download>, so you'd type
> wget --http-user=postal2mac --http-passwd=p33p33Hz  
> http://0day.icculus.org/private/postal2beta/postal2-mac-beta1.dmg
>
> HTH,
> ben
>