This sounds like a challenge. You're on.
- Do some scratching around; discover sites hosting "wlsetup-all.exe"
- Point the Web Archive at download.live.com
- After some trial and error with broken pages find http://web.archive.org/web/20161130174327/https://support.mi...
- Follow the "Download options" link
- Eventually land on http://web.archive.org/web/20161226002912/https://support.mi..., and disable JavaScript so the page doesn't kill itself (remember on Chrome you just click the (i) to the left of the URL)
- Ah, a "Download Now" link!
$ curl -vv http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=255475
Location: http://g.live.com/1rewlive5-web/en/wlsetup-web.exe
$ curl -vv http://g.live.com/1rewlive5-web/en/wlsetup-web.exe
Location: http://wl.dlservice.microsoft.com/download/C/1/B/C1BA42D6-6A50-4A4A-90E5-FA9347E9360C/en/wlsetup-web.exe
Hmm... (note s/web/all/g)
$ curl -vv http://g.live.com/1rewlive5-all/en/wlsetup-all.exe
Location: http://wl.dlservice.microsoft.com/download/C/1/B/C1BA42D6-6A50-4A4A-90E5-FA9347E9360C/en/wlsetup-all.exe
Can I...?... $ curl -vv http://wl.dlservice.microsoft.com/download/C/1/B/C1BA42D6-6A50-4A4A-90E5-FA9347E9360C/en/wlsetup-all.exe
< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
(...)
<div id="header"><h1>Server Error</h1></div>
(...)
<h2>404 - File or directory not found.</h2>
<h3>The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.</h3>
Hmmm.- Try and load wl.dlservice.microsoft.com/robots.txt in the Web Archive
- Get redirected to Microsoft homepage!!
- Lookup wl.dlservice.microsoft.com/* in Web Archive
- "805 URLs have been captured for this domain."
- Search for "c1ba..." - get hits!
http://web.archive.org/web/20170416220642/http://wl.dlservic...
137329840 bytes.
There are other sites that have copies of the file, but a) this one is from the Web Archive and b) I've verified using a mixture of WA and still-live Microsoft redirects that this is the latest-ever release.