Since it's your network admin's job to maintain the security of your company's network, and every organization has different security requirements, I won't presume to offer any workarounds. Instead, I suggest that you engage with your network admin to explain what you're trying to do (if you haven't already), and see if he or she has any ideas about how to accomplish the task while maintaining a comfortable level of compliance. It might be possible to set up a proxy that only allows outbound connections to oracle.com, for example, but since I'm not a network guy, I might be just making things up. Or maybe there's a network share on the database server that is also accessible from a server that has access to the outside world, but if your network admin is blocking outbound port 80, I doubt that this sort of this sort of thing would be allowed either.

Depending on the work involved, you may both decide that any solution to the problem isn't worth the time and effort. If that's the case, you're stuck with copying patches up to the database server from another machine. Even then, using wget to download the patches could still save you some time, since you could batch all of the downloads into a single script, and avoid babysitting several browser sessions.

Good luck!

Regards,

John P.

--16:02:33-- (try: 2) http://updates.oracle.com/Orion/Download/process_form/p8202632_10205_HPUX-IA64.zip?file_id=30615228&aru=12652895&userid=olis_userid@olis_org&email=olis_email&patch_password=&patch_file=p8202632_10205_HPUX-IA64.zip
Connecting to updates.oracle.com|141.146.44.51|:80...

I think port 80 is blocked on this server. My network admin told me port 80 should never be open on a DB server and DB servers should never have internet access as it is too much of a security hole.

Any comments/workarounds?

Thanks

The method described in this post covers downloadig patches from My Oracle Support, but doesn't address downloading files from Oracle Technet. OTN downloads require cookies to be set for the download session, so you'll need to copy the appropriate cookies from another browser and feed them to wget. There's a good writeup by Marc Fielding on the Pythian blog that explains how to do this: http://www.pythian.com/library/papers_and_books/downloading_from_otn_directly_to_your_database_server/

Regards,

John P.

if someone can help,
I am looking to download the file ofm_appdev_generic_11.1.1.2.0_disk1_1of1.zip
to wls unix server with wget or if there is better way.

the site is http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/middleware.html

Thank You!

david

if someone can help,
I am looking to download the file ofm_appdev_generic_11.1.1.2.0_disk1_1of1.zip
to wls unix server with wget or if there is better way.

Thank You!

david

Are you able to retrieve other patches with wget? I haven't seen this behavior with any of the patches I've downloaded this way. Perhaps you have some options defined in a global or local wgetrc file that are influencing wget's default operation regarding redirects.

Regards,

John P.

Didn't work...