The use of Wget for Downloading Oracle

Question

My basic configuration:
Ubuntu 16.04
Wget 1.17.1

when I use the command

$ wget --http-user=myuser --http-password=mypasswrd https://download.oracle.com/otn/linux/oracle11g/R2/linux.x64_11gR2_database_1of2.zip

to download the oracle11g, the terminal shows the following output:

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Permanently  
Location: https://download.oracle.com/errors/download-fail-1505220.html [following]    
--2019-04-07 11:42:05--  https://download.oracle.com/errors/download-fail-1505220.html   
Connecting to download.oracle.com (download.oracle.com)|23.45.156.151|:443... connected.   
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK   
Length: 5307 (5.2K) [text/html]   
Saving to: ‘linux.x64_11gR2_database_1of2.zip.2’    
linux.x64_11gR2_database_1o 100%[=======================>]   5.18K  --.-KB/s    in 0s         
2019-04-07 11:42:10 (737 MB/s) - ‘linux.x64_11gR2_database_1of2.zip.2’ saved [5307/5307]

When du -sh linux.x64_11gR2_database_1of2.zip, the linux.x64_11gR2_database_1of2.zip.2 only has 8.0K!!!

And I have clicked on "Accept License".

Appreciate any comment.

Answer 1

If you look at what gets downloaded:

you see this:

Sorry! In order to download products from Oracle Technology Network you must agree to the OTN license terms. Be sure that... Your browser has "cookies" and JavaScript enabled. You clicked on "Accept License" for the product you wish to download. You attempt the download within 30 minutes of accepting the license.

In practice, in the page where you agree wit the licence, Oracle sets a cookie, and this is checked when you download. You can extract the cookie(s) from your browser and reuse them with Wget (see the --load-cookies paramater), but it may not be worth the trouble.