Bug handling session cookies

2005-06-24 Thread Mark Street
Hello folks, I'm running wget v1.10 compiled from source (tested on HP-UX and Linux). I am having problems handling session cookies. The idea is to request a web page which returns an ID number in a session cookie. All subsequent requests from the site must contain this session cookie. I'm

Re: Bug handling session cookies

2005-06-24 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Mark Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not sure why this [catering for paths without a leading /] is done in the code. rfc1808 declared that the leading / is not really part of path, but merely a separator, presumably to be consistent with its treatment of ;params, ?queries, and #fragments.

Re: Getting the list of the files to download before downloading them

2005-06-24 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/21/05, Isaac Grover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if someone on the list could come up with a sed one-liner? Or a snippet of perl perhaps. It should be trivial to take a directory of html files, extract html tags that bracket each URL that mention a PDF file, and write a

Re: ChangeLog-branches

2005-06-24 Thread Alain Bench
Hello Hrvoje, On Thursday, June 23, 2005 at 9:00:44 PM +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: the ChangeLog-branches directories distributed with Wget are desirable or necessary? MHO: They are ununderstandable, unusable, unclean, and big. They may give a false bad impression of source/project

Re: Removing thousand separators from file size output

2005-06-24 Thread Alain Bench
On Thursday, June 23, 2005 at 3:16:28 PM +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: Since Wget 1.10 also prints sizes in kilobytes/megabytes/etc., I am thinking of removing the thousand separators from size display. IMHO thousand (or myriad) separators are necessary. This size display is primarily

Re: Removing thousand separators from file size output

2005-06-24 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Alain Bench [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday, June 23, 2005 at 3:16:28 PM +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: Since Wget 1.10 also prints sizes in kilobytes/megabytes/etc., I am thinking of removing the thousand separators from size display. IMHO thousand (or myriad) separators are

Re: ChangeLog-branches

2005-06-24 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Alain Bench [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MHO: They are ununderstandable, unusable, unclean, and big. They may give a false bad impression of source/project misorganization. We want to drop them, wipe any proof of their existence from any archives and mirrors, then honestly deny they ever

RE: Removing thousand separators from file size output

2005-06-24 Thread Leonid
Hrvoje, What do you think? To add a new (oh!) option in .wgetrc and call it decimal_separator Those guys who find numbers like 11782023180 easy to read and can tell for a fraction of a second that it was 11Gb downloaded, not 1.1Gb, will use decimal_separator = I personally would

RE: Removing thousand separators from file size output

2005-06-24 Thread Tony Lewis
Hrvoje Niksic wrote: In fact, I know of no application that accepts numbers as Wget prints them. Microsoft Calculator does. Tony

Re: Wikipedia page

2005-06-24 Thread Oliver Schulze L.
Added :) I think that having a link to an email address is not that usefull, because people can just write to that email address because its a mailling list. Is just an Idea, if you want to can revert the changes. Thanks Oliver Hrvoje Niksic wrote: "Oliver Schulze L." [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Removing thousand separators from file size output

2005-06-24 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Leonid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Those guys who find numbers like 11782023180 easy to read and can tell for a fraction of a second that it was 11Gb I'm not such person; Wget would in fact print: Length: 11782023180 (11.0G)

Re: Bug handling session cookies

2005-06-24 Thread Mark Street
Hrvoje, Many thanks for the explanation and the patch. Yes, this patch successfully resolves the problem for my particular test case. Best regards, Mark Street.

Re: Removing thousand separators from file size output

2005-06-24 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Tony Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hrvoje Niksic wrote: In fact, I know of no application that accepts numbers as Wget prints them. Microsoft Calculator does. Sorry, I forgot to qualify that as (Unix) command-line application or something to that effect. I know that many GUI

Re: Wikipedia page

2005-06-24 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Oliver Schulze L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that having a link to an email address is not that usefull, because people can just write to that email address because its a mailling list. Good point. An even better link might be to the gmane archive, where you can read the list, but

Re: Bug handling session cookies

2005-06-24 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Mark Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Many thanks for the explanation and the patch. Yes, this patch successfully resolves the problem for my particular test case. Thanks for testing it. It has been applied to the code and will be in Wget 1.10.1 and later.

No more Libtool (long)

2005-06-24 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Thanks to the effort of Mauro Tortonesi and the prior work of Bruno Haible, Wget has been modified to no longer use Libtool for linking in external libraries. If you are interested in why that might be a cause for celebration, read on. A bit of history: Libtool was integrated in Wget by Dan

Re: Wikipedia page

2005-06-24 Thread Oliver Schulze L.
Good idea Hrvoje. Oliver Hrvoje Niksic wrote: "Oliver Schulze L." [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that having a link to an email address is not that usefull, because people can just write to that email address because its a mailling list. Good point. An even