Here’s where many developers get tripped up. If you curl a details.aspx URL, you won’t get the file — you’ll get HTML. The actual download binary is hidden behind a :
You might ask: Why not just static links? microsoft download details aspx
GET /en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12345 ↓ (parse HTML for __VIEWSTATE, download button form) POST /en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=12345 ↓ (302 redirect) GET //download.microsoft.com/download/.../file.exe Here’s where many developers get tripped up
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