status code 406 returns by an URL where it's possible to download with wget and curl

[Skywalker13]

With request, the result is an empty file and the 406 status code printed in the console.

'use strict';

const fs      = require ('fs');
const request = require ('request');
require ('request-debug') (request);

request
  .get ('https://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/file/3979/chrpath-0.16.tar.gz')
  .on ('response', function (res) {
    console.log (res.statusCode);
  })
  .pipe (fs.createWriteStream ('chrpath-0.16.tar.gz'));

output

{ request: 
   { debugId: 1,
     uri: 'https://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/file/3979/chrpath-0.16.tar.gz',
     method: 'GET',
     headers: { host: 'alioth.debian.org' } } }
{ response: 
   { debugId: 1,
     headers: 
      { date: 'Tue, 20 Dec 2016 17:57:59 GMT',
        server: 'Apache/2.2.22 (Debian)',
        'x-powered-by': 'PHP/5.4.45-0+deb7u6',
        'x-robots-tag': 'noindex, nofollow',
        vary: 'Accept-Encoding',
        'content-length': '0',
        connection: 'close',
        'content-type': 'text/html; charset=UTF-8' },
     statusCode: 406 } }
406

[Skywalker13]

Ok, it's fixed with this change:

request
  .get ({
    url: 'https://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/file/3979/chrpath-0.16.tar.gz',
    headers: {
      Accept: '*/*'
    }
  })

Not sure if it's an issue or not..

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