Problems with http://download.virtualbox.org and wget

wget output

This behavior cannot be changed, as it's part of handling the legal aspects of US export control. Well, it can, but neither involved party would appreciate that - it would mean stopping direct VirtualBox downloads entirely.

Also I fail to see that this is really a major problem. You can easily rename the file afterwards (as the '?' separator is obvious), or use wget -O. That means just minor changes to your script.

Replying to klaus:

This behavior cannot be changed, as it's part of handling the legal aspects of US export control. Well, it can, but neither involved party would appreciate that - it would mean stopping direct VirtualBox downloads entirely.

ok no problems at all when there are legal aspects involved.

Also I fail to see that this is really a major problem. You can easily rename the file afterwards (as the '?' separator is obvious), or use wget -O. That means just minor changes to your script.

the problem will afflict all the gentoo users installing PUEL licensed files (as said before portage uses wget to retrieve files), the problem is trivial but it's not easy to resolve since portage expects a the same filename declared in the SRC_URI variable.

By the way, to resolve this issue in PUEL ebuilds, the download will be restricted so the users will fetch all the needed files itself.