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In my experience, I have never run into a URL that was too long.  the only
thing that I have had problems with in the past are, links timing out, or if
it is ftp you sometimes must specify a username and password.  You know now
that I think about it some websites block the use of file retrievers, could
that be the problem?


Mike Marchywka-2 wrote:
> 
> 
> btw, is there a known problem with lynx that causes it to die when the url
> is too long?
> I don't have an example right now but I've noticed several times, and it
> appears to be
> with long urls, that lynx dies for no obvious reason. I use something like
> lynx -dump -width 1200 url. I don't think this normally violates the
> command line length constraint which I thought was 
> many k. Is there a server response that can provoke an abnormal
> termination ( want to say
> seg fault or access violation but can't remember)? 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
>> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:50:21 -0700
>> From: garretlewis AT gmail DOT com
>> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>> Subject: Re: Can't find how to fetch from the web
>>
>>
>> are you talking about using wget to download files or webpages?
>>
>> all you have to do is open the setup.exe and the new package you want is
>> under WEB>>(select)wget
>>
>> then google wget to see how to use it... it pretty simple and a good way
>> to
>> get data or other things from the web.
>>
>> I hope this what you were going for.
>>
>> Garret
>>
>>
>>
>> defn noob wrote:
>>>
>>> Believe me I have googled and read the faqs but I can't find how to
>>> download from the web.
>>>
>>> I have installed cygwin and it works but I think I need a package
>>> although
>>> web was default in my download.
>>>
>>> 1. how do I install packages once I already have installed cygwin?
>>>
>>> 2. what do I write do download from a specific internetadress.
>>>
>>> best regards cirfu
>>>
>>>
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