> Have you looked at whether netcat might be a better fit for your needs than > wget in this instance?
netcat isn't aware of html, response codes, etc at that layer so it wouldn't work. There is no reason users should have to write their own parser and complete tool when wget does that. > another option would be to use the "timeout" program from coreutils, it > should be available by default on any GNU/Linux distro: > $ timeout DURATION wget ...... > you can also specify the signal to send to the process. As before, external process monitors do not work with recursive wget page by page, nor do they capture server response status, partial pages, etc. Nor should non Linux users have to install Linux. The proper place for these two timeout and byte count options is in wget.
