WGET (World Wide Web GET) is a free tool that allows us to download web content from the internet easily through command line. I recently installed vSphere environment as below. My purpose was to install a Windows 10 guest inside the ESXi host but I didn’t have an ISO. While I was thinking wget came to my mind, and I tried to download a Windows 10 ISO from the Microsoft website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This article will explains how to overcome the following errors while using wget in ESXi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
First and foremost, make sure the ESXi host has access the internet and that proper DNS is configured and working. Even though ports \/ DNS and internet is allowed on the network ESXi won’t be able to download files from outside httpClient is blocked in the ESXi firewall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
How to know whether the httpClient is open in the ESXI firewall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
esxcli network firewall ruleset list | grep -i httpClient\n\nhttpClient false >>>>> false means it is not opened<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nTo open the httpClient, you can use the following command. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClient\n\n#To verify\nesxcli network firewall ruleset list | grep -i httpClient\n\nhttpClient true<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nOnce the above requirements are met, if you are still facing issues while downloading files, this blog might help to find the solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Error 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nConnecting to software.download.prss.microsoft.com (23.3.XX.XX:443)\nwget: error getting response: Invalid argument<\/strong><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nError 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nConnecting to software.download.prss.microsoft.com (23.3.XX.XX:443)\nwget: error getting response: Cannot assign requested address<\/strong><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nError 3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nFile name too long<\/strong><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nFirst I logged in to ESXi shell via terminal. I have installed the below version of ESXi and wget package is already comes with ESXi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
[root@Mine-1:\/vmfs\/volumes\/6869aXXX-XXX] vmware -vl\nVMware ESXi 7.0.3 build-19193900\nVMware ESXi 7.0 Update 3\n\n[root@Mine-1:\/vmfs\/volumes\/6869aXXX-XXX] wget\nBusyBox v1.29.3 (2021-06-30 11:17:36 PDT) multi-call binary.\n\nUsage: wget [-c|--continue] [--spider] [-q|--quiet] [-O|--output-document FILE]\n\t[-o|--output-file FILE] [--header 'header: value'] [-Y|--proxy on\/off]\n\t[--no-check-certificate]\n\t[-P DIR] [-S|--server-response] [-U|--user-agent AGENT] URL...\n\nRetrieve files via HTTP or FTP\n\n\t--spider\tOnly check URL existence: $? is 0 if exists\n\t--no-check-certificate\tDon't validate the server's certificate\n\t-c\t\tContinue retrieval of aborted transfer\n\t-q\t\tQuiet\n\t-P DIR\t\tSave to DIR (default .)\n\t-S \t\tShow server response\n\t-O FILE\t\tSave to FILE ('-' for stdout)\n\t-o FILE\t\tLog messages to FILE\n\t-U STR\t\tUse STR for User-Agent header\n\t-Y on\/off\tUse proxy<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n