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

[Ye Xu]

Hey Philipp,

Your detailed explanation is very helpful, but I don't quite
understand the part about
Range header, can you be more specific, what shall I put after -H? or
maybe for now even
if I put this range header after -H, the server will still won't
accecpt multiple connections download?
and you also mentioned a bad practice, do you mean youku.com has a bad
practice to prevent user
from multi-instance download?

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 18:09, Philipp Hagemeister <phihag at phihag.de> wrote:
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> Hi Ye,
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> I see you are using the trunk version anyway. I did a little bit of
> digging, and the problem is that f.youku.com blocks the following
> requests with a 403:
>
> * No user-agent or wget or axel in the user-agent. No need for a long
> UA, -U MSIE will do and is unlikely to be ever blocked.
> * ANY Range header, even if we request the full file. This is extremely
> bad practice and prevents multiple parallel downloads. As I found out
> too late (after commiting), removing this header will break parallel
> downloading in axel. I opened a bug report[1] for this. However, because
> this is probably even a deliberate server malfunction and could break
> other stuff, this needs further consideration. I will make sure to test
> that version 3.0 does not send this header.
>
> The other headers have no effect on the reply.
>
> Regards,
>
> Philipp
>
>
> [1]
> https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=311284&group_id=100070&atid=413085