Comment 6 for bug 1026762

Well, wget works anyway, just doesn't know the size:

$ LC_ALL=C wget -S http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml
--2012-07-21 14:45:01-- http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml
Resolving dl.google.com (dl.google.com)... 2a00:1450:4001:c01::5d, 173.194.70.190, 173.194.70.91, ...
Connecting to dl.google.com (dl.google.com)|2a00:1450:4001:c01::5d|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Last-Modified: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:20:00 GMT
  Accept-Ranges: bytes
  Content-Type: application/xml
  ETag: 2f22e
  Vary: *
  Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 12:45:01 GMT
  Server: downloads
  Cache-Control: private
  X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
  X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
  Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Length: unspecified [application/xml]
Saving to: `repomd.xml'

    [ <=> ] 951 --.-K/s in 0s

2012-07-21 14:45:01 (118 MB/s) - `repomd.xml' saved [951]