[X] My Assistant

[edstrick]

I have been using a website download manager for downloading newly posted Cassini (and MER images).
HTTrack Website Copier ( http://www.httrack.com/ ) checks what files you've already downloaded and doesn't re-download them, so it can grab anything new in short order without eating humongous amounts of bandwidth.

Starting about a week ago, when I try to download all filed under

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag.../casJPGFullS19/

(where the current orbit's raw images are being posted) I get the message:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS19/ on this server.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache/1.3.31 Server at saturn.jpl.nasa.gov Port 80

It's easy to grab a FEW images, one at a time, from the raw image brouser on the Cassini webpage, but effectively impossible to grab more than that.

Is this a policy change?
A website configuration error?
Is there any other way to get all the new RAW images on a more-or-less daily basis without killing a mouse and getting carpal tunnel?

[djellison]

The ability to bulk-download, preferably as zipped-batches is something I insisted is an appropriate means for downloading PDS data when a gentleman who is doing a project of assesing use and formatting of the PDS spoke to me a few months ago

Doug

[Guest_Richard Trigaux_*]

A gentleman? Perhaps we should speak of gentlebots when software downloading bulk data are respecting some rules of "politeness" such as letting some time between two file downloads, to avoid saturating the bandwidth and hamper other users. It is in this way that most bots work, such as Googlebot.