Thread: copy/paste URL for a tarball
Hi, Here's a simple task. Download a tarball source file from the PostgreSQL website. Open your browser, find the URL to the tarball, copy/paste it from your browser into your ssh session, then do a wget on it. I could not find an easy way to get the URL for this task. The webpage seems to redirect to local mirrors. I understand the goal of redirection. However, if I want the tarball URL, as I understand, I must start the download in my browser, then get the URL from that process, then copy/paste. I see no way to get the download URL without starting the download. For example: Starting here: http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/v8.3.5/ How can I easily get this URL (or something similar) into my paste buffer: ftp://ftp5.us.postgresql.org/pub/PostgreSQL/source/v8.3.5/postgresql-8.3.5.tar.bz2 Did I miss something? :) -- Dan Langille http://langille.org/
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> wrote: > Starting here: > > http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/v8.3.5/ > > How can I easily get this URL (or something similar) into my paste buffer: > > ftp://ftp5.us.postgresql.org/pub/PostgreSQL/source/v8.3.5/postgresql-8.3.5.tar.bz2 > > Did I miss something? Possibly - or maybe I'm misunderstanding the question. On the flag list you see having chosen a file to download, right-click the link you want to use and copy the URL, eg: http://wwwmaster.postgresql.org/redir?http%3A%2F%2Fftp2.uk.postgresql.org%2Fsites%2Fftp.postgresql.org%2Fsource%2Fv8.3.5%2Fpostgresql-8.3.5.tar.bz2 wget will do the right thing with such a URL, and get the file you want, from the mirror you've chosen. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
On Dec 16, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Dave Page wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> > wrote: > >> Starting here: >> >> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/v8.3.5/ >> >> How can I easily get this URL (or something similar) into my paste >> buffer: >> >> ftp://ftp5.us.postgresql.org/pub/PostgreSQL/source/v8.3.5/postgresql-8.3.5.tar.bz2 >> >> Did I miss something? > > Possibly - or maybe I'm misunderstanding the question. On the flag > list you see having chosen a file to download, right-click the link > you want to use and copy the URL, eg: > > http://wwwmaster.postgresql.org/redir?http%3A%2F%2Fftp2.uk.postgresql.org%2Fsites%2Fftp.postgresql.org%2Fsource%2Fv8.3.5%2Fpostgresql-8.3.5.tar.bz2 Perhaps I'm merely missing the "quotes" around the URL in my wget... :) > > > wget will do the right thing with such a URL, and get the file you > want, from the mirror you've chosen. > > > > -- > Dave Page > EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Dan Langille http://langille.org/
On Dec 16, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Dave Page wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> > wrote: > >> Starting here: >> >> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/v8.3.5/ >> >> How can I easily get this URL (or something similar) into my paste >> buffer: >> >> ftp://ftp5.us.postgresql.org/pub/PostgreSQL/source/v8.3.5/postgresql-8.3.5.tar.bz2 >> >> Did I miss something? > > Possibly - or maybe I'm misunderstanding the question. On the flag > list you see having chosen a file to download, right-click the link > you want to use and copy the URL, eg: > > http://wwwmaster.postgresql.org/redir?http%3A%2F%2Fftp2.uk.postgresql.org%2Fsites%2Fftp.postgresql.org%2Fsource%2Fv8.3.5%2Fpostgresql-8.3.5.tar.bz2 Perhaps I'm merely missing the "quotes" around the URL in my wget... :) > > > wget will do the right thing with such a URL, and get the file you > want, from the mirror you've chosen. > > > > -- > Dave Page > EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Dan Langille http://langille.org/
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> wrote: > >> http://wwwmaster.postgresql.org/redir?http%3A%2F%2Fftp2.uk.postgresql.org%2Fsites%2Fftp.postgresql.org%2Fsource%2Fv8.3.5%2Fpostgresql-8.3.5.tar.bz2 > > Perhaps I'm merely missing the "quotes" around the URL in my wget... :) I didn't need any here. I tested on FreeBSD fwiw. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 10:40 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > Hi, > > Did I miss something? > > :) > As far as I know, you can't. Which brings up a good point. We should have a list of mirrors. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997
On Dec 16, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Dave Page wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> > wrote: >> >>> http://wwwmaster.postgresql.org/redir?http%3A%2F%2Fftp2.uk.postgresql.org%2Fsites%2Fftp.postgresql.org%2Fsource%2Fv8.3.5%2Fpostgresql-8.3.5.tar.bz2 >> >> Perhaps I'm merely missing the "quotes" around the URL in my >> wget... :) > > I didn't need any here. I tested on FreeBSD fwiw. AIX here.... Sorry, this post was probably premature and was definitely done without caffeine. -- Dan Langille http://langille.org/