[axel-users] is it possible to set http header and user-agent in .axelrc file?

[Ye Xu]

thanks for your reply, and no need to say sorry, because the dev team
already done a fantastic job on axel. I am quite enjoy to use it as my
default cli downloader. esp in some aspect, it even outperform wget :D

back to the topic:

for the time point I wrote this thread, i was already using the latest
version out of svn - r64.

>seen at seen-desktop $
>axel -V
>Axel version 2.99.0 (Linux)
>Copyright 2001-2002 Wilmer van der Gaast.

so, that means after a fix commited in svn, I can use the same
parameters like wget in .axelrc? or use the alias I had mentioned
above?


On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 16:23, Philipp Hagemeister <phihag at phihag.de> wrote:
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> Ye,
>
> looks like it's our mistake: The code for user-agent slipped out of the
> release. Sorry for that. We'll release an updated version shortly. In
> the meantime, you can use a development version by typing the following
> commands:
>
> svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/ axel-trunk
> cd axel-trunk
> ./configure
> make
>
>
> After that, the axel executable can be found in the current directory.
> Type  make install  as root or  sudo make install  to install it. Most
> likely, it will be easier to wait for your distribution to push the
> changes. Again, sorry for that mistake.
>
> Regards,
>
> Philipp Hagemeister
>
>
>
>
> Ye Xu wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> Just curious how can I set multiple http headers or user-agent inside
>> .axelrc file just like .wgetrc did like the following.
>>
>> $less .wgetrc
>> header = Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
>> header = Accept:
>> text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
>> header = Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
>> header = Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
>> header = Keep-Alive: 300
>> user_agent = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
>> rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
>> referer = http://www.google.com
>>
>> and I also tried to apply the same thing using an alias, but it won't work.
>>
>> alias axel2='axel --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT
>> 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6"
>> --header="Accept:text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
>> Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
>> Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300"'
>>
>> or
>>
>> alias axel2='axel --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT
>> 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6"
>> --header="Accept:text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5"
>> --header="Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5" --header="Accept-Encoding:
>> gzip,deflate" --header="Accept-Charset:
>> ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7" --header="Keep-Alive: 300"'
>>
>> the test link is the following.
>>
>> http://f.youku.com/player/getFlvPath/sid/12281352837007018629_00/st/flv/fileid/020001070047CA21B541F9007D4392FE9E6FA5-6C90-5B04-1D92-C2FEB95942CB?K=68eeac87640cdc2f161a070f
>>
>> with wget (with header, user-agent setting above) works, with axel
>> show a http 403 error.
>>
>> thx
>>
>> Ye
>>
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