The download links on the mirrors page have a bug in the rediretector. IE works around it by fixing the invalid link, but wget fails:

[root /root]# wget http://www.php.net/do_download.php?mr=http%3A%2F%2Fus2.php.net%2F\&df=php-4.2.3.tar.gz
--20:05:49--  http://www.php.net:80/do_download.php?mr=http%3A/us2.php.net/&df=php-4.2.3.tar.gz
           => `&df=php-4.2.3.tar.gz'
Connecting to www.php.net:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: http:/us2.php.net/distributions/php-4.2.3.tar.gz [following]
...

Note that your redirector only put a single '/' after the http: protocol specifier, not two. So wget tries to ftp to the host "http" and fails, of course. 

This should be a simple fix.

Also, it would be nice (for wget and other command-line downloaders on Unix) of the URL didn't have a '&' in it that you had to escape before downloading.
Just a thought.

Thanks

p.s. Your bug submitter is too smart. I would have given a real email address, just obfuscated a bit to make it human readable, but not computer readable. But it wouldn't let me. Sorry. Maybe you should change the bug listing service to not print email addresses.