Unable to download Mac OS X v10.10.5's combo updater file with Terminal's curl command?

[Ant]

Hello.

Is it me or is Apple blocking Terminal's curl command? I am trying to
download http://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1832/en_US/osxupdcombo10.10.5.dmg,
but I get 0 byte file right away as shown below:

$ curl -O
http://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1832/en_US/osxupdcombo10.10.5.dmg
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left
Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0

I had no problems downloading other random files from other servers
though.

Thank you in advance. :)
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[David Empson]

Ant <ANT...@zimage.com> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Is it me or is Apple blocking Terminal's curl command? I am trying to
> download http://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1832/en_US/osxupdcombo10.10.5
> .dmg, but I get 0 byte file right away as shown below:
>
> $ curl -O
> http://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1832/en_US/osxupdcombo10.10.5.dmg
> % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
> Dload Upload Total Spent Left
> Speed
> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
>
> I had no problems downloading other random files from other servers
> though.
>
> Thank you in advance. :)

As JR said, that isn't the actual download URL. It does a series of HTTP
redirects to the actual download.

That means you need to tell curl to follow redirects, by adding the -L
(or --location) option, e.g. (all on one line):

curl -OL
http://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1832/en_US/osxupdcombo10.10.5.dmg

This worked for me (at least for starting to download the actual dmg - I
aborted it as I don't need another copy).

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[Ant]

Thanks guys! I didn't know it was redirecting. :) I also added "-C -"
parameters to be able to resume since my Internet connection was
unstable (related to the crazy 100F degrees heat wave?). :(

I am used to old wget, but I couldn't get it compiled so I decided to
try curl command. :)