kalle <[email protected]> writes: >> What is the question? As you state it, the document says that with >> "recursive", wget will download links to other hosts, and which means, >> of course, that the default behavior of wget (that is, without any >> options) is not to do so. > > well. then the info-document should be changed, so that it doesn't make > the impression on the reader, that it would be so. at least, this is > how I interpeted it. and I was puzzled quite a time with this problem, > that it seemed to not fit as described.
Actually, my point is that your initial question isn't very clear, and not just because you chose to write in a peculiar dialect of English. Indeed, I seem to have not properly understood it. Given your reply above, it seems that you expect that if --recursive is specified, then all links on all pages will be followed, including those to other hosts. And you expect this because the paragraph describing --recursive doesn't specifically say that it does not by default. > secondly: does someone know the reason for not downloading the links to > other hosts? I suspect that in a lot of cases, following *all* links from a page would lead to downloading half of the Web, because pages link to pages link to pages... Dale
