I try to download a file with wget and curl and it is rejected with a 403 error (forbidden). I can view the file using the web browser on the same machine. I try again with my browser's user agent, obtained by http://www.whatsmyuseragent.com. I do this: wget -U 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0' http://... and curl -A 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:30.0) Ge
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