[OSM-talk] bbox download problems

[Robin Paulson]

i've been trying to download a subset of the osm data, for auckland,
as detailed at:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmxapi#All_Elements

wget -O auckland.osm
http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/*[bbox=174.4,-37.2,174.9,-36.7]

is the command i used, but i get first an error about wildcards not
being accepted (is this a wget error?), but even if i replace the *
with 'node' i get a 501 error. is this really an error on the server,
or have i stuffed up the command? if so, can someone help me with the
syntax of the command?

thanks