All,

I have what is probably a dumb newbie question, but I have to start
somewhere.

Namely, I'm just trying to use cURL to download a file. From olden days
I tend to use wget, but cURL has more features, so I'm trying to learn it.

Now, with wget I can do this:

> (173) $ wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-1.9.1.tar.gz
> --2014-04-08 10:00:09-- http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-1.9.1.tar.gz
> Resolving pypi.python.org... 199.27.78.175
> Connecting to pypi.python.org|199.27.78.175|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
> Location: https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-1.9.1.tar.gz [following]
> --2014-04-08 10:00:09-- https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-1.9.1.tar.gz
> Connecting to pypi.python.org|199.27.78.175|:443... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 2004589 (1.9M) [application/octet-stream]
> Saving to: “virtualenv-1.9.1.tar.gz”
>
> 100%[================================================================>] 2,004,589 7.93M/s in 0.2s
>
> 2014-04-08 10:00:10 (7.93 MB/s) - “virtualenv-1.9.1.tar.gz” saved [2004589/2004589]

And it works. Now, my usual routine then is instead of "wget" use "curl
-O" (here with -v since it doesn't work):

> (177) $ curl -v -O http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-1.9.1.tar.gz
> * Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache
> * Trying 199.27.76.175...
> % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
> Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0* Connected to pypi.python.org (199.27.76.175) port 80 (#0)
>> GET /packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-1.9.1.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
>> User-Agent: curl/7.36.0
>> Host: pypi.python.org
>> Accept: */*
>>
> < HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
> < Retry-After: 0
> < Location: https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-1.9.1.tar.gz
> < Content-Length: 0
> < Accept-Ranges: bytes
> < Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 14:01:05 GMT
> < Connection: close
> <
> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0
> * Closing connection 0

So...yeah. For reference, I did build this cURL myself (as part of a set
of base libraries for a project) and it reports these protocols:

> (180) $ curl -V
> curl 7.36.0 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.36.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1e zlib/1.2.3
> Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps pop3 pop3s rtsp smtp smtps tftp
> Features: IPv6 Largefile NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz

from this configure:

> @echo "Configuring curl"
> @(cd curl; \
> export PATH="$(prefix)/bin:$(PATH)" ;\
> export CPPFLAGS="$(INC_SUPP)";\
> export LIBS="-lm";\
> ./configure --prefix=$(prefix) \
> --includedir=$(prefix)/include/ \
> --libdir=$(prefix)/lib \
> --disable-ldap \
> --disable-telnet \
> --disable-manual \
> --disable-shared \
> --enable-static \
> --with-ssl \
> --without-libidn \
> CCFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" CC=$(CC) CXX=$(CXX) FC=$(FC) )
> @touch $@

So the answer might be that I just did not configure the build correctly.

Either way, does anyone know what I might add to get this to work?
Either on the command-line or to my configure?

Thanks,
Matt

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