Re: [Bug-wget] wget ignores --no-check-certificate if started by Powershell Script

[Tim Ruehsen]

Hi gooly,

it is not wget that have to be blamed.

The server says "permission denied" included in the 403 response.
You can check that by adding --content-on-error.

That means --no-check-certificate works correctly. Wget connects to the 
server, sends a request and gets a response (403 Forbidden).

You'll need some credentials (Username/Password) to connect to the server for 
sure. The reason why it sometimes works and sometimes not might be a IP 
address caching on the server. If you login on the server with a browser and 
after that use wget from the same IP address, the server might let you in (for 
a while, e.g. 10 or 30 minutes).

Tim

On Sunday 14 February 2016 21:51:18 gooly wrote:
> Hi,
> I have no idea what can I do. It has been working last Sunday but now it
> fails again - the same script!!
> 
> I want to download a https-page every Sunday evening and I want wget to
> ignore the certificate of the https-page!
> 
> PS-So my script has:
> 
>   $urlDFx  = "https://www.dailyfx.com/calendar/";
>   $argList = " $urlDFx -O $rawDFx -o $logDFx --no-check-certificate "
>   $wg = Start-Process wget -wait -NoNewWindow -PassThru -ArgumentList
> $argList
> 
> The other variables are names of my local files - if you know wget you
> will know.
> 
> Last Sunday this worked perfect if I run it in the ps-cmd and in
> Powershell's ISE but it fails regularly if the script was called by the
> task scheduler.
> 
> Finally I got the task-scheduler-call to work by adding --verbose:
>   $argList = "$urlDFx -O $rawDFx -o $logDFx --no-check-certificate
> --verbose "
> 
> But today (Sunday again) the task-scheduler call failed and now even the
> call in the ISE failed???
> 
> The error is always the same:
>  > --2016-02-14 21:23:26--  https://www.dailyfx.com/calendar/
>  > Resolving www.dailyfx.com... 104.87.22.147
>  > Connecting to www.dailyfx.com|104.87.22.147|:443... connected.
>  > WARNING: cannot verify www.dailyfx.com's certificate, issued by
> 
> `/C=US/O=GeoTrust Inc./CN=GeoTrust SSL CA - G3':
>  >   Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
>  > 
>  > WARNING: certificate common name `fxcm.com' doesn't match requested
> 
> host name `www.dailyfx.com'.
> 
>  > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
>  > 2016-02-14 21:23:26 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
> 
> So:
> 1) wget accesses the url but
> 2) ignores the option --no-check-certificate
> 3) stops the dld of the https-page but
> 4) tries the http-page and fails with a 403-error
> 
> What do I have to do that wget called by my Powershell script
> =>  _FOR SURE_  (!!)
> loads this https _IGNORING_ the certificate!!
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> Gooly

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