Not able to download from URL which contains a space in it.

[Guest Big Rich]

Hi,

I'm new to Ketarin, so hopefully, this is a noobie issue:

 

I'm trying to get an opensource C++ development environment up and running on Windows 7 64bit. I'm trying to installing a version of GCC from http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net. The direct download URL is:

 

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/tdm-gcc/TDM-GCC Installer/tdm64-gcc-4.7.1-2.exe

 

OR (with mime)

 

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/tdm-gcc/TDM-GCC%20Installer/tdm64-gcc-4.7.1-2.exe

 

Notice the space in 'TDM-GCC Installer'?

 

I can't get this URL to work in Ketarin, I've tried, (unsuccessfully):

 

1. Double-quotes around the entire URL (non-mime).

2. Double-quotes around the space

3. A '\' before the space

4. Add the space to a textual variable ({space})

 

The URL works fine for me with WGET (on Windows).

 

BTW, the actual Ketarin error is:

 

TDM-GCC-x64 The downloaded file is not a binary file type (text/html; charset=utf-8). Possibly there is an error page. Status code: 200 (OK) (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/tdm-gcc/TDM-GCC Installer/tdm64-gcc-4.7.1-2.exe)

 

Any ideas or is this a bug?

 

Thanks

 

Rich

[shawn]

Assuming you're storing that URL in the variable "url", you could use this in the DownloadURL field:

 
{url:replace: :%20}

This will ensure that spaces are properly URL-encoded.

[Guest Big Rich]

Hi Shawn,

That doesn't work for me, I get the following:

 

 

TDM-GCC-x64 The downloaded file is not a binary file type (text/html; charset=utf-8). Possibly there is an error page. Status code: 200 (OK) (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/tdm-gcc/TDM-GCC%20Installer/tdm64-gcc-4.7.1-2.exe)

 

The URL listed in that error works with WGET and is no different to the URL I listed in my first post, which was correctly URL encoded (sorry, I said mime).

 

It seems a shame to me to fall down at the first hurdle (this is the first time I'm using Ketarin).

 

I'm using version 1.6.0.434.

 

Cheers

 

Rich

[shawn]

Did you set your user-agent to something other than the default? Ketarin uses a normal browser user-agent, which Sourceforge intercepts and treats as a browser, inserting the interstitial ad page. You'll need to set the user-agent to something else, such as "wget/1.0" in order to have it work reliably.

[Guest Big Rich]

OK, that did the trick, thanks.

 

BTW, I used 'Wget/1.10.1' if anybody's interested.

 

Thanks

 

Rich