Get files from a page that is redirected using wget

Question

I am trying to download the contents of http://someurl.com/123 using wget . The problem is that http://someurl.com/123 is redirected to http://someurl.com/456 .

I already tried using --max-redirect 0 and this is my result:

wget --max-redirect 0 http://someurl/123
...
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://someurl.com/456 [following]
0 redirections exceeded.

Is there a way to get the actual contents of http://someurl.com/123 ?

Answer 1

By default, wget can follow up to 20 redirections. But since you set --max-redirect to 0 , it returned 0 redirections exceeded .

Try this command

wget --content-disposition http://someurl.com/123

--max-redirect=number

Specifies the maximum number of redirections to follow for a resource. The default is 20, which is usually far more than necessary. However, on those occasions where you want to allow more (or fewer), this is the option to use.

--content-disposition If this is set to on, experimental (not fully-functional) support for Content-Disposition headers is enabled. This can currently result in extra round-trips to the server for a HEAD request, and is known to suffer from a few bugs, which is why it is not currently enabled by default.