That is _really_ ugly, and perhaps immoral.  Make it an option, if you must.
Certainly don't make it the default behavior.

Shudder....


Mark Post

-----Original Message-----
From: Hrvoje Niksic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 4:59 PM
To: Peter GILMAN
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: problem with LF/CR etc.


Peter GILMAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> i have run into a problem while using wget: when viewing a web page with
> html like this:
>
>    <a href="images/IMG_01
>    .jpg"><img src="images/tnIMG_01
>    .jpg"></a>

Eek!  Are people really doing that?  This is news to me.

> browsers (i tested with mozilla and IE) can handle the line breaks
> in the urls (presumably stripping them out), but wget chokes on the
> linefeeds and carriage returns; it inserts them into the urls, and
> then (naturally) fails with a 404:
[...]

So, Wget should squash all newlines?  It's not hard to implement, but
it feels kind of ... unclean.

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