wget receives the file and hangs [closed]

I am trying to beat weird problem - wget gets the file, saves it to disk and hangs. Here is the details:

wget --server-response --ca-directory=/etc/ssl/certs --no-dns-cache -T 1 --read-timeout=1 --header="Connection: close" https://api.vk.com/method/users.get?uids=1&fields=first_name,last_name,photo,photo_big

Detailed log:

Setting --server-response (serverresponse) to 1
Setting --ca-directory (cadirectory) to /etc/ssl/certs
Setting --dns-cache (dnscache) to 0
Setting --timeout (timeout) to 1
Setting --read-timeout (readtimeout) to 1
Setting --header (header) to Connection: close
DEBUG output created by Wget 1.11.4 on linux-gnu.

--2015-05-06 10:44:04--  https://api.vk.com/method/users.get?uids=1
Resolving api.vk.com... 87.240.131.117, 87.240.131.118, 87.240.131.119, ...
Connecting to api.vk.com|87.240.131.117|:443... connected.
Created socket 3.
Releasing 0x0000000001b6d5e0 (new refcount 0).
Deleting unused 0x0000000001b6d5e0.
Initiating SSL handshake.
Handshake successful; connected socket 3 to SSL handle 0x0000000001b6f070
certificate:
  subject: /OU=Domain Control Validated/CN=*.vk.com
  issuer:  /C=US/ST=Arizona/L=Scottsdale/O=GoDaddy.com, Inc./OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/repository//CN=Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2
X509 certificate successfully verified and matches host api.vk.com

---request begin---
GET /method/users.get?uids=1 HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: Wget/1.11.4
Accept: */*
Host: api.vk.com
Connection: close

---request end---
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
---response begin---
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache
Date: Wed, 06 May 2015 06:44:04 GMT
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 65
Connection: close
X-Powered-By: PHP/3.13576
Set-Cookie: remixlang=3; expires=Tue, 03 May 2016 15:01:31 GMT; path=/; domain=.vk.com
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-control: no-store

---response end---

  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Server: Apache
  Date: Wed, 06 May 2015 06:44:04 GMT
  Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
  Content-Length: 65
  Connection: close
  X-Powered-By: PHP/3.13576
  Set-Cookie: remixlang=3; expires=Tue, 03 May 2016 15:01:31 GMT; path=/; domain=.vk.com
  Pragma: no-cache
  Cache-control: no-store
cdm: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Stored cookie vk.com -1 (ANY) / <permanent> <insecure> [expiry 2016-05-03 19:01:31] remixlang 3
Length: 65 [application/json]
Saving to: `users.get?uids=1.13'

100%[=====================================================================================================================================================================>] 65          --.-K/s   in 0s

Closed 3/SSL 0x0000000001b6f070
2015-05-06 10:44:04 (7.92 MB/s) - `users.get?uids=1.13' saved [65/65]

Then it just hangs. This behaviour doesn't reproduce on other hosts. Please, advise.

wget is not hanging. Your shell is waiting for you to enter another command, and the shell prompt is at the top of the output somewhere...

The problem is: You did not quote the URL, and it contains an ampersand. This character is used to put a process in the background, and importantly, anything following it is treated as another command line to be run.

So the shell treated this as two commands:

wget --server-response --ca-directory=/etc/ssl/certs --no-dns-cache -T 1 --read-timeout=1 --header="Connection: close" https://api.vk.com/method/users.get?uids=1&

and

fields=first_name,last_name,photo,photo_big

Since wget was placed in the background, the shell continued on, interpreted the remainder of the command line as a variable assignment, and then returned immediately. For fun, inspect the output of echo $fields :)

To resolve the problem, quote the URL in single or double quotes.

wget receives the file and hangs [closed]

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