Re: Support for file://

2008-09-27 Thread Petr Pisar
Michelle Konzack napsal(a): Am 2008-09-20 22:05:35, schrieb Micah Cowan: I'm confused. If you can successfully download the files from HOSTINGPROVIDER in the first place, then why would a difference exist? And if you can't, then this wouldn't be an effective way to find out. I mean, IF you

Re: Support for file://

2008-09-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-09-20 22:05:35, schrieb Micah Cowan: I'm confused. If you can successfully download the files from HOSTINGPROVIDER in the first place, then why would a difference exist? And if you can't, then this wouldn't be an effective way to find out. I mean, IF you have a local (master) mirror

Re: Support for file://

2008-09-22 Thread David
file://. Here is what I wrote then: At 03:45 PM 26/06/2006, David wrote: In replies to the post requesting support of the file:// scheme, requests were made for someone to provide a compelling reason to want to do this. Perhaps the following is such a reason. I have a CD with HTML content

Re: Support for file://

2008-09-22 Thread Micah Cowan
in 2006 describing what I consider a compelling reason to support file:// file:///. Here is what I wrote then: At 03:45 PM 26/06/2006, David wrote: In replies to the post requesting support of the file:// scheme, requests were made for someone to provide a compelling reason to want to do

Re: Support for file://

2008-09-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
to be in the business of duplicating the system cp command, but I might conceivably not mind file:// support if it means simple _content_ transfer, and not actual file duplication. Also in need of addressing is what recursion should mean for file://. Between ftp:// and http://, recursion currently

Re: Support for file://

2008-09-20 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michelle Konzack wrote: Imagine you have a local mirror of your website and you want to know why the site @HOSTINGPROVIDER has some files more or such. You can spider the website @HOSTINGPROVIDER recursiv in a local tmp1 directory and then,

Re: Support for file://

2008-09-02 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Petri Koistinen wrote: Hi, I would be nice if wget would also support file://. Feel free to file an issue for this (I'll mark it Needs Discussion and set at low priority). I'd thought there was already an issue for this, but can't find it (either

Support for file://

2008-09-01 Thread Petri Koistinen
Hi, I would be nice if wget would also support file://. Petri

Re: Wishlist: support the file:/// protocol

2006-07-17 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
David wrote: In replies to the post requesting support of the “file://” scheme, requests were made for someone to provide a compelling reason to want to do this. Perhaps the following is such a reason. hi david, thank you for your interesting example. support for “file://” scheme

Re: Wishlist: support the file:/// protocol

2006-06-25 Thread David
In replies to the post requesting support of the “file://” scheme, requests were made for someone to provide a compelling reason to want to do this. Perhaps the following is such a reason.I have a CD with HTML content (it is a CD of abstracts from a scientific conference), however for space

Re: Wishlist: support the file:/// protocol

2005-12-14 Thread Antonio Zerbinati
Hi All, first of all, keep in mind that rsync already handle local (and remote) file/dir transfer at best, IMHO rsync is the best solution, ever, for coping files when you have shell access to. You can have a look at here: http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync.html just look at the details of

Re: Wishlist: support the file:/// protocol

2005-12-13 Thread Steven M. Schweda
I, too, see little value in using Wget to copy files which are accessible locally, but let's say that someone wished to add this feature. Given a link like file:///a/b.c, what would be the destination for the downloaded file on the local file system? How would link conversion work? Also,

Re: Wishlist: support the file:/// protocol

2005-12-12 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This may be useful when some network share are mounted to local file system *** OK, so why do you want to download the file from local file system to local file system? Because Wget can shows the download speed, restart a download with `-c', etc. I second the