"Dan Harkless" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
By the way, neither "//" nor "/%2F" works in 1.7-dev. Perhaps we
broke that when we fixed the problem where recursive FTP 'wget's
assumed that logging in always put you in '/'?
I believe some of Jan's changes broke it. Also, the standard idiom:
By the way, neither "//" nor "/%2F" works in 1.7-dev. Perhaps we
broke that when we fixed the problem where recursive FTP 'wget's
assumed that logging in always put you in '/'?
I believe some of Jan's changes broke it. Also, the standard idiom:
wget -r
Jan Prikryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Quoting Jamie Zawinski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
However, that said, I still think wget should do what Netscape does,
because that's what everyone expects. The concept of a "default
directory" in a URL is silly.
Well, silly or not, the concept is
Dan Harkless wrote:
Well, silly or not, the concept is already there, so I don't think it makes
sense to remove the ability to access RFC-valid URLs in order to imitate
Netscape or Internet Explorer.
I guess that depends on whether you think it's more important to
do the most useful thing,
Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dan Harkless wrote:
Well, silly or not, the concept is already there, so I don't think it makes
sense to remove the ability to access RFC-valid URLs in order to imitate
Netscape or Internet Explorer.
I guess that depends on whether you think
Hrvoje Niksic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Netscape can retrieve this URL:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/7.0/i386/apache-devel-1.3.14-3.i386.rpm
wget cannot. wget wants it to be:
Dan Harkless wrote:
It's my experience that very few anonymous FTP servers put you in a
directory other than '/' (it certainly may be a chroot()ed '/'),
ftp.redhat.com puts you in /pub by default (as user "anonymous".)
I haven't checked, but I'd say it's a safe bet that this is what the
Netscape can retrieve this URL:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/7.0/i386/apache-devel-1.3.14-3.i386.rpm
wget cannot. wget wants it to be:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com//pub/redhat/updates/7.0/i386/apache-devel-1.3.14-3.i386.rpm
I believe the Netscape behavior is right and the wget
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:46:51AM -0800, Jamie Zawinski wrote:
Netscape can retrieve this URL:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/7.0/i386/apache-devel-1.3.14-3.i386.rpm
wget cannot. wget wants it to be:
Quoting Hanno Foest ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:46:51AM -0800, Jamie Zawinski wrote:
Netscape can retrieve this URL:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/7.0/i386/apache-devel-1.3.14-3.i386.rpm
wget cannot. wget wants it to be:
Hanno Foest wrote:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/7.0/i386/apache-devel-1.3.14-3.i386.rpm
ftp://ftp.redhat.com//pub/redhat/updates/7.0/i386/apache-devel-1.3.14-3.i386.rpm
...
I don't think so. The double slash in front of the path part of the URL
starts the path in the ftp
Quoting Jamie Zawinski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
However, that said, I still think wget should do what Netscape does,
because that's what everyone expects. The concept of a "default
directory" in a URL is silly.
The correct approach would be to try "CWD url/dir/path/" (the correct
meaning) and
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