DMOZ and RDF downloads

have some real issues downloading a file

[moltar]

Did anyone else have problems downloading RDF database from DMOZ?

If I try to download using IE, it says "xMB of 236MB downloaded" on the download window, and then when X reaches 236 both numbers start to grow and at one point they were over 350MB, so I canceled the download.

Also tried using download manager software. It downloaded exactly 236MB but sum check failed and I couldn't extract the file.

What's the deal? Are there any mirrors where I can get it from?

[jmccormac]

Looks like IE is interpreting the file as being a compressed webpage and is decompressing it on the fly. You have to save the link rather than clicking on it or use some other download client.

Regards...jmcc

[moltar]

As I said I also tried using download manager (ReGet). Which is superb at downloading things, but that didn't do the trick.

[tschild]

I used to get the same effects downloading with a browser. It seems that's the way they work when the HTTP header says

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Encoding: x-gzip

I finally downloaded wget (free, also available for Windows); that worked.

[moltar]

Thanks tschild, wget worked well!

Mmm.. good old DOS/*nix applications :)