[Techtalk] any Red Hat peeps here?

[Carla Schroder]

On Fri, 20 May 2011 19:39:07 +0200
Wim De Smet <kromagg at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> > Pardon, but that doesn't work-- it starts a new download. Duh,
> >> > because it is a new filename.  
> >>
> >> What happens if you add the --continue argument to the wget
> >> command? 
> >
> > It starts a new download, because it is a new filename.  
> 
> Mightn't it work if you rename the local file to match the new
> filename?
> 
> Wim

Well Wim, it probably would. Here is one of the download URLs:

wget -c
'https://content-web.rhn.redhat.com/rhn/isos/rhel-6.1-beta-1.3-isos/md5sum/5bf67b054dc36d50f1d2efea993850d1/rhel-workstation-6.1-i386-boot.iso?__gda__=1305565911_857cf4a3bc411f7df061161b3437247e&ext=.iso'

The string that follows gda__=1305565911_ is the part that changes
every time.

But why should anyone have to overcome such silly hurdles?

RH tech support is awesome, this is the last response I received:

"Hello,

Thank you for your email.

I was able to download. Please make sure you are using Firefox.
In the Customer Portal, you may look at the knowledge base articles

Let us know if you need more information."

Seriously??

best,
Carla