got bad header error in wget on beaglebone black

Question

I am running

wget --output-document=/tmp/1.jpg "http://ip_address/snapshot.cgi?user=admin&pwd=888888"

on the beaglebone black, and it give me the following error:

wget: bad header line: tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:56:34 GMT

This command works perfectly on other linux environments except my beaglebone black.

I don't know what happens here. Need some help.

Answer 1

Make sure that you are actually using wget and not the "BusyBox" version of wget that comes with the default angstrom distro.

opkg update
opkg install wget

Now try and see if wget works as you would expect it to. I had problems with wget too untill i realised that it is a stripped down version of wget.