Re: megatools, megadl and links ended with dot

Subject: Re: megatools, megadl and links ended with dot

From: Ondřej Jirman

Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 18:10:54 +0200

Hello,

On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 02:45:06PM +0200, vico@tuta.io wrote:
> Hi,
> I try download
> https://mega.nz/#!gS4XgaTQ!7rycCzY7EKhQekx7DEJsvkRu0NRc0X6A23lJYbWKxS8 <https://mega.nz/#!gS4XgaTQ!7rycCzY7EKhQekx7DEJsvkRu0NRc0X6A23lJYbWKxS8>.
> and I have message
> WARNING: Skipping invalid Mega download link: https://mega.nz/# <https://mega.nz/#>! gS4XgaTQ! 7rycCzY7EKhQekx7DEJsvkRu0NRc0X6A23lJYbWKxS8.

Megatools expects a link with no extra trailing characters. The real
link is just:

  https://mega.nz/#!gS4XgaTQ!7rycCzY7EKhQekx7DEJsvkRu0NRc0X6A23lJYbWKxS8

Mega's website seemingly ignores some trailing characters, but I'm not sure
it's such a good idea.

regards,
  o.

> Regards.
> --
> Victor