wget

[Jamon Camisso]

Daniel Armstrong wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion, but adding the "-r" option does not help. I
> guess the problem is that - as you state - when using HTTP wget only
> downloads links, and this particular download directory has a
> collection of video files but no index.html... so there are no links
> for wget to follow? Am I interpreting this correctly?
> 
> This is what I get when I run wget with "-r":
> 
> wget -r -A "*220k.rm" http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/7/7.012/f04/video/
> 
> --16:52:08--  http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/7/7.012/f04/video/
>           => `ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/7/7.012/f04/video/index.html'
> Resolving ocw.mit.edu... 209.123.81.89, 209.123.81.96
> Connecting to ocw.mit.edu|209.123.81.89|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
> 16:52:08 ERROR 404: Not Found.
> 
> Removing ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/7/7.012/f04/video/index.html since it
> should be rejected.
> unlink: No such file or directory
> 
> FINISHED --16:52:08--
> Downloaded: 0 bytes in 0 files

Check Section 4 (the bottommost) on the following page:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/AboutOCW/newsletterfeb05.htm

It lists akamai urls for the course material you are trying to access. 
It also lists urls on archive.org.

Hope this gets you a step closer,

Jamon
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