This question is a follow-up of HTTP 500 error in wget
Upon server errors wget
will not fetch the content of the reponse, whereas curl
should be used for that purpose.
Indeed curl
, or any web browser, does load the content as well in case of 50X exit code.
So I was indeed curious to better understand why wget
will not load the content anyway, with none of the lots of options it has: usually servers send an error explanation along, so why ignore it?