On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Micah Cowan <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Steven D'Amico wrote:
> > I'm a bit of an amateur when it comes to using like this, so pardon if
> > my question is dumb/silly. (Or if I missed something in the manual).
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> > I'm trying to figure out if there is a way for wget to download the
> > source code I'd get for a site by viewing that source from a browser.
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> If you mean the HTML source (which is what you would see with "view
> source" in your browser), then you should understand that there is no
> such thing as a web page that is _not_ source. If Wget successfully
> downloaded a web page, it got the source.
He probably has logged in with cookies etc or seeing something after a lot
of clicking and wants to download that page. While CTRL-U (see source) will
show the right "source" a wget on the URL would probably give something
entirely different (the log-in page).
Also it's not entirely impossible for a web server to discriminate against
wget.
I have as a rule the use of --user-agent="{firefox UA here}"
--keep-session-cookies
If a log-in is involved, two consecutive requests with
--save-cookies=cookies.dat and --load-cookies=cookies.dat would be needed.
But of course, this is just guessing on my part.
FC
