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Aug 202014
 

I love it, how OSSEC forbids the use of wget based on the user agent

mail:~# wget http://www.ossec.net/files/ossec-hids-2.8.tar.gz
–2014-08-20 06:47:06– http://www.ossec.net/files/ossec-hids-2.8.tar.gz
Resolving www.ossec.net (www.ossec.net)… 150.70.191.237
Connecting to www.ossec.net (www.ossec.net)|150.70.191.237|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 403 Forbidden
2014-08-20 06:47:06 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

mail:~# wget -U “not-wget” http://www.ossec.net/files/ossec-hids-2.8.tar.gz
–2014-08-20 06:47:08– http://www.ossec.net/files/ossec-hids-2.8.tar.gz
Resolving www.ossec.net (www.ossec.net)… 150.70.191.237
Connecting to www.ossec.net (www.ossec.net)|150.70.191.237|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 1662990 (1.6M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `ossec-hids-2.8.tar.gz’

100%[========================================================================>] 1,662,990 486K/s in 3.6s

2014-08-20 06:47:12 (454 KB/s) – `ossec-hids-2.8.tar.gz’ saved [1662990/1662990]

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