On 21 Oct 2023 at 19:22, Tim Rühsen wrote: Date sent: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 19:22:25 +0200 Subject: Re: wget claims "Success" when it failed to write to local directory To: Christian Rosentreter <kar...@gmx.net>, bug-wget@gnu.org From: Tim Rühsen <tim.rueh...@gmx.de>
Did a test with wget2 and get this result with error (2) if no write permission? wget2 https://www.christianrosentreter.com/ Failed to open 'index.html' (2) index.html 100% [============================================================== =======>] 1.89K --.-KB/s [Files: 1 Bytes: 1.89K [2.23KB/s] Redirects: 0 Todo: 0 Errors: 0 ] With write permission it downloads index.html fine. wget2 https://www.christianrosentreter.com/ index.html 100% [============================================================== ======>] 1.89K --.-KB/s [Files: 1 Bytes: 1.89K [2.27KB/s] Redirects: 0 Todo: 0 Errors: 0 ] > Hi, > > do you run the latest wget (1.21.4)? > > With that version, you get a > > Cannot write to 'index.html' (Permission denied). > > Regards, Tim > > On 10/21/23 17:16, Christian Rosentreter wrote: > > > > Hi there, > > > > There's a minor cosmetic bug in wget 1.x where it claims "Success" when it > > in fact entirely failed to write to the local > > disk, e.g. because of missing permissions/ write access to the current > > directory. The return code is "3" however, so it's > > basically only the message that it prints on screen that is funny in a > > suspicious way: > > > > > > ### Prepare situation… > > $ mkdir foobar > > $ chmod -w foobar # remove write access > > $ cd foobar > > > > > > ### Note: the "Permission denied" and "Cannot write to" messages, but we > > ### get a "(Success)" anyway: > > $ wget https://www.christianrosentreter.com/ > > --2023-10-21 17:05:35-- https://www.christianrosentreter.com/ > > Resolving www.christianrosentreter.com (www.christianrosentreter.com)... > > 85.13.142.16 > > Connecting to www.christianrosentreter.com > > (www.christianrosentreter.com)|85.13.142.16|:443... connected. > > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > > Length: unspecified [text/html] > > index.html: Permission denied > > > > Cannot write to 'index.html' (Success). > > > > > > ### The return code seems to be reasonable though: > > $ echo $? > > 3 > > > > > > ### Version tested: > > $ wget --version > > GNU Wget 1.21.4 built on darwin14.5.0. > > > > +cares +digest -gpgme +https +ipv6 +iri +large-file +metalink -nls > > +ntlm +opie +psl +ssl/openssl > > > > …cut… > > > > > > > > > > +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mi...@guam.net mailto:msetze...@gmail.com Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+
