Hi Gert, Thank you pointing this out. I've updated the documentation to reflect that Wget tries 20 times.
On Sat, Sep 28, 2024, at 21:40, Gert Robben wrote: > With --tries you can specify how often wget should try a download. > That is so in practice, as well as according to the manpage. > > In practice the default appears to be 20 tries, which means 19 retries. > But the manpage says "The default is to retry 20 times". > > That same word mixup was encountered here: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2013-05/msg00057.html > The chosen solution was, to change "retries" to "tries" in the manpage. > It appears the above quoted sentence was simply overlooked at the time. > > Here is my test result: > $ wget -4 -o- --timeout=0.1 http://example.com:31337/ |sort|uniq -c > 20 > 1 --2024-09-28 20:35:15-- http://example.com:31337/ > 1 --2024-09-28 20:35:16-- (try: 2) http://example.com:31337/ > 1 --2024-09-28 20:35:18-- (try: 3) http://example.com:31337/ > 1 --2024-09-28 20:35:21-- (try: 4) http://example.com:31337/ > 1 --2024-09-28 20:35:25-- (try: 5) http://example.com:31337/ > 1 --2024-09-28 20:35:30-- (try: 6) http://example.com:31337/ > 1 --2024-09-28 20:35:36-- (try: 7) http://example.com:31337/ > 1 --2024-09-28 20:35:43-- (try: 8) http://example.com:31337/ > > 1 --2024-09-28 20:35:51-- (try: 9) http://example.com:31337/ > > 1 --2024-09-28 20:36:01-- (try:10) http://example.com:31337/ > > 1 --2024-09-28 20:36:11-- (try:11) http://example.com:31337/ > > 1 --2024-09-28 20:36:21-- (try:12) http://example.com:31337/ > > 1 --2024-09-28 20:36:31-- (try:13) http://example.com:31337/ > > 1 --2024-09-28 20:36:41-- (try:14) http://example.com:31337/ > > 1 --2024-09-28 20:36:51-- (try:15) http://example.com:31337/ > > 1 --2024-09-28 20:37:01-- (try:16) http://example.com:31337/ > > 1 --2024-09-28 20:37:11-- (try:17) http://example.com:31337/ > > 1 --2024-09-28 20:37:21-- (try:18) http://example.com:31337/ > > 1 --2024-09-28 20:37:31-- (try:19) http://example.com:31337/ > > 1 --2024-09-28 20:37:42-- (try:20) http://example.com:31337/ > > 20 Connecting to example.com (example.com)|93.184.215.14|:31337... > failed: Connection timed out. > 1 Giving up. > > 1 Resolving example.com (example.com)... 93.184.215.14 > > 19 Retrying. > > I use (the "wget_1.21.3-1+b2_amd64.deb" package from) Debian 12. > But I see that manpage text is the same in the latest upstream. > > I'm not subscribed, but I don't mind being left out of further discussion. > Thanks, Gert
