clicking links directly ok, using vwget yields 403 errors

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Watchdogx

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Sep 26, 2009, 8:29:26 AM9/26/09
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Was trying to use vwget on a google images page. I can click the
images and go to the source pages no problem. But when I use vwget, I
see a 403 error right at beginning and vwget stops. Saw somebody
suggest using a browser emulation feature "-U" option with wget but
couldn't find a way to set this option in vwget. Is this a feature I
didn't find, or something to request? Any other suggestions on how to
circumvent this error/problem? Thanks.

Khomsan Ph.

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Sep 26, 2009, 10:37:34 AM9/26/09
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Please try the --user-agent option of Wget. When create a new job with
VisualWget, select Advanced, select HTTP, select --user-agent and
enter something like "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:
1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092416 Firefox/3.0.3".
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