Regarding wget on uClinux busybox systems.

Stefan Seyfried stefan.seyfried at googlemail.com
Thu Aug 20 06:31:40 UTC 2009


On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:19:41 +0530
"Manu Kumar  Agarwal" <Manu.Agarwal at hcl.in> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am using the wget command on uClinux systems through the busybox
> functionality.
> 
> My problem is that I want to download a file from a remote location
> through the http protocol using authentication (username and
> password), but the wget command present with the busybox does not
> support the sending of the authentication credentials to the http
> server. It gives the error 401 Access denied.
> 
> Has anybody faced the similar problem, can anybody advise me about
> the solution to the problem.

Do you have FEATURE_WGET_AUTHENTICATION enabled in your busybox .config?

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Then let's hope that I am a named recipient ;)
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