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GavinD
GavinD

Reputation: 25

Downloading an MP3 - WGET works, CURL doesn't

I have been using WGET to download the following file:

wget http://www.fsnradionews.com/FSNNews/FSNHeadlines.mp3

This works perfectly but I want to do the same thing using CURL. If I use:

curl -L -O http://www.fsnradionews.com/FSNNews/FSNHeadlines.mp3

..the file downloads BUT rather than being the audio file, it contains the following HTML:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>406 Not Acceptable</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Acceptable</h1>
<p>An appropriate representation of the requested resource could not be found on this server.</p>
<p>Additionally, a 406 Not Acceptable
error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.</p>
</body></html>

Having researched the problem, many have suggested the request is being redirected hence why I added the -L, but this doesn’t appear the fix the issue.

Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4274

Answers (2)

J0R1AN
J0R1AN

Reputation: 610

It looks like the server is not accepting the User-Agent. You can supply a common user agent like Mozilla/4.0 with the -A option in curl. The final command would become:

curl -O http://www.fsnradionews.com/FSNNews/FSNHeadlines.mp3 -A "Mozilla/4.0"

Upvotes: 1

Ihor Vyspiansky
Ihor Vyspiansky

Reputation: 916

Did you try

curl http://www.fsnradionews.com/FSNNews/FSNHeadlines.mp3 -o FSNHeadlines.mp3

?

Should download the file from http://www.fsnradionews.com/FSNNews/FSNHeadlines.mp3 and save it as FSNHeadlines.mp3.

Upvotes: 0

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