[gdal-dev] /vsicurl, curl and wget

[Laurențiu Nicola]

gdal vector info /vsizip/vsicurl/https://www.fema.gov/about/reports-and-data/openfema/cl2024_v1.gdb.zip works for me (GDAL 3.12.3), but takes a couple of minutes, because ZIP isn't great at random access. I actually cancelled it after it printed the name of the third layer.

HTTP 403 is "Forbidden", which is.. interesting.

Laurentiu

On Sat, Apr 25, 2026, at 04:52, Scott via gdal-dev wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I'm having issues with a remote file. The following do not work:
>
> gdal vsi copy 
> https://www.fema.gov/about/reports-and-data/openfema/cl2024_v1.gdb.zip .
> gdal vector info 
> /vsizip/vsicurl/https://www.fema.gov/about/reports-and-data/openfema/cl2024_v1.gdb.zip
> curl 
> https://www.fema.gov/about/reports-and-data/openfema/cl2024_v1.gdb.zip 
> -o stf.gdb.zip
>
> All result in a 403, since they're dependent on curl.
>
> However, the following 'wget' works fine:
>
> wget https://www.fema.gov/about/reports-and-data/openfema/cl2024_v1.gdb.zip
>
> Has anyone encountered this before? What am I missing?
>
> Thanks!
> Scott
>
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