On 16-12-12 20:42, Bob Bib wrote: > gave me an idea of a bad argument passed to wget. > > To get the full "bad URL", you can try to run wget in debug mode from your > wrapper like this: > wget --debug [--output-file=logfile]
I did what you suggested. See the result below (line break in the URL by my e-mail program). First a failed install, then a successful install. Paul paul@wollumbin /tmp $ cat wget_log DEBUG output created by Wget 1.13.4 on linux-gnu. URI encoding = `ANSI_X3.4-1968' URI encoding = `ANSI_X3.4-1968' --2012-12-16 22:36:36-- http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/get-upstream-version.pl.gz.pgp Resolving \001 (\001)... failed: Name or service not known. wget_org: unable to resolve host address `\001' paul@wollumbin /tmp $ cat wget_log_224818965384909 DEBUG output created by Wget 1.13.4 on linux-gnu. URI encoding = `ANSI_X3.4-1968' --2012-12-16 22:48:18-- http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/get-upstream-version.pl.gz.pgp Resolving people.debian.org (people.debian.org)... 206.12.19.5, 2607:f8f0:610:4000:214:38ff:feee:b65a Caching people.debian.org => 206.12.19.5 2607:f8f0:610:4000:214:38ff:feee:b65a Connecting to people.debian.org (people.debian.org)|206.12.19.5|:80... connected. Created socket 4. Releasing 0x00000000022d7700 (new refcount 1). ---request begin--- GET /~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/get-upstream-version.pl.gz.pgp HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: Wget/1.13.4 (linux-gnu) Accept: */* Host: people.debian.org Connection: Keep-Alive ---request end--- HTTP request sent, awaiting response... ---response begin--- HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 21:47:44 GMT Server: Apache Last-Modified: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:30:16 GMT ETag: "360000e-67f-4d0acd3f76200" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 1663 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: application/pgp-signature ---response end--- 200 OK Registered socket 4 for persistent reuse. Length: 1663 (1.6K) [application/pgp-signature] Saving to: `./get-upstream-version.pl.gz.pgp' 0K . 100% 118M=0s 2012-12-16 22:48:19 (118 MB/s) - `./get-upstream-version.pl.gz.pgp' saved [1663/1663]
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