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wget on repository atlassian returning 404

I have a process batch that it downloads repositories from bitbucket with wget command. Now, the process is fail with 404 error

wget   https://bitbucket.org/fwmovilidad/desplieguemanualcformation/get/SubidaPRO20FEB.tar.gz
--2022-09-30 08:48:01--  https://bitbucket.org/fwmovilidad/desplieguemanualcformation/get/SubidaPRO20FEB.tar.gz
Resolviendo bitbucket.org (bitbucket.org)... 104.192.141.1
Conectando con bitbucket.org (bitbucket.org)[104.192.141.1]:443... conectado.
Petición HTTP enviada, esperando respuesta... 404 Not Found
2022-09-30 08:48:03 ERROR 404: Not Found.
Solution

  • Atlassian recently made a change where we return 404 instead of 403 code for unauthenticated users, which has caused an issue in downloading the archive from Bitbucket using wget.

    The wget command always waits for the 403 challenge from the server before it sends the credentials to the server. However, with the recent changes, the server initially sends the 404 status to the client and wget doesn't send credentials later on.

    I have two suggestions to work around this issue:

    1. To use the --auth-no-challenge flag in the wget command as follows:

    wget --user=BitbucketUsername --password=AppPassword --auth-no-challenge https://bitbucket.org/Workspace-ID/Repo/get/master.tar.gz

    1. You can download the file using curl command instead:

    curl -u BitbucketUsername:AppPassword https://bitbucket.org/Workspace-ID/Repo/master.tar.gz -o master.tar.gz