Take the 2-minute tour ×  When verifying a site in Google
Webmaster Tools, with the recommended method of using a special
HTML file, was it made so needlessly difficult?  Google
explicitly gives you the name of the file on the verification
page, but doesn't easily reveal its content — if you follow the
link to the file as served by google.com, then the browser will
most likely ask you to explicitly save and download it first,
instead of showing it as-is within the browser (e.g. google must
be serving the file with something like Content-Disposition:
attachment; filename=googleXYZ.html HTTP header).  If you
instead copy/paste the link to the file from the browser to the
terminal, and use wget on the server to fetch the file that had
to end up on the server anyways, then, apparently, a wrong
version of the file is fetched (user session doesn't match?),
and verification fails. After failing to verify the site, Google
Webmaster Tools interface is nice enough to show you what
exactly the content of such a wrong fi