@m0_as Simply by searching in Google Scholar if found this link: krishisanskriti.org/vol_image/02Jul20150507036.pdf The paper seems to be freely available there.

But downloading it using the trick from the post worked too - I used the command d:\wget\wget --referer http://scholar.google.com "http://www.academia.edu/download/52892295/A_Survey_on_Detection_of_Byzantine_an‌​d_Resource_Consumption_Attacks.pdf"

where do you write that command?

Well, in the command line, but you need to have wget on your computer.

Are you working under unix/linux or win? Or MacOS?

I work with MacOS

Oh, I have never used mac.

So there is not any way to find a direct downloadable link for the paper?

similar to what you mentioned exist for some papers in google

But Wikipedia says that: "Wget has been ported to Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, OpenVMS, HP-UX, MorphOS and AmigaOS."

Yes, I think wget also works for MacOS

@m0_as For this specific paper I have already posted a link: krishisanskriti.org/vol_image/02Jul20150507036.pdf

Yes, I know about that one

And if you want to download from academia, the link academia.edu/download/52892295/… works, but you will have to "pretend" that you come from google scholar, since academia.edu checks the http referer.

That is what I used wget for. They are probably many different ways how to do that.

I see

thanks

And the link I used for wget I got from the page you linked.

I followed the advice given in the answer where you commented.

I found in the source of the page doc_id: 52892295 and redirect: "https://www.academia.edu/32733970/A_Survey_on_Detection_of_Byzantine_and_Resour‌​ce_Consumption_Attacks?auto=download".

I manually changed the url to http://www.academia.edu/download/52892295/A_Survey_on_Detection_of_Byzantine_an‌​d_Resource_Consumption_Attacks.pdf.