Difference between wget and browser file downloading

I have a direct link http://oocairo.naquadah.org/dist/oocairo-1.4.tar.bz2

And it's downloading fine throught chromium web browser. But throught wget

$ wget http://oocairo.naquadah.org/dist/oocairo-1.4.tar.bz2
--2012-05-07 18:44:44--  http://oocairo.naquadah.org/dist/oocairo-1.4.tar.bz2
Parsing oocairo.naquadah.org... 2a02:2178:2:4::174, 212.85.154.174
Connecting to oocairo.naquadah.org|2a02:2178:2:4::174|:80...

it's just hang. Why?

wget

Jofsey

Posted 2012-05-07T14:18:27.420

Reputation: 917

Have you tried wget --user-agent="Chrome 9.5 Gecko 1.7" http://... already? – ott-- – 2012-05-07T15:00:12.540

post that as an answer – Sathyajith Bhat – 2012-05-07T15:54:49.227

I can't do it, while my reputation is less than 100. – Jofsey – 2012-05-07T19:18:32.770

@Lescott you should be able to do it now since 8 hours have passed by – Sathyajith Bhat – 2012-05-08T07:01:22.220

Done. (And some more text to overcome comment lenght limit.) – Jofsey – 2012-05-08T10:29:23.267

Difference between wget and browser file downloading

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