On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, John Nielsen wrote:

> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:52:46 -0400
> From: John Nielsen <li...@jnielsen.net>
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Cc: Joe R. Jah <j...@cloud.ccsf.cc.ca.us>
> Subject: Re: OT: wget bug
>
> On Friday 17 July 2009 06:12:33 pm Joe R. Jah wrote:
> > I want to wget a site at regular intervals and only get the updated
> > pages, so I use the this wget command line:
> >
> > wget -b -m -nH http://host.domain/Directory/file.html
> >
> > It works fine on the first try, but it fails on subsequent tries with
> > the following error message:
> >
> > --8<--
> > Connecting to host.domain ... connected.
> > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
> > Authorization failed.
> > --8<--
> >
> > I can change directory from which to run wget every time, but that
> > defeats the purpose of downloading only the changed files.
> >
> > I googled "wget fails on second try" and found this small patch in a
> > Linux group that should supposedly fix the problem:
> >
> > --8<--
> > --- wget-1.10.2/src/ftp.c.cwd   2006-12-03 13:23:08.801467652 +0100
> > +++ wget-1.10.2/src/ftp.c       2006-12-03 20:30:24.641876672 +0100
> > @@ -1172,7 +1172,7 @@
> >         len = 0;
> >        err = getftp (u, &len, restval, con);
> >
> > -      if (con->csock != -1)
> > +      if (con->csock == -1)
> >         con->st &= ~DONE_CWD;
> >        else
> >         con->st |= DONE_CWD;
> > --8<--
> >
> > My wget is the latest version in the ports, 1.11.4.
> >
> > Any ideas or advise is greatly appreciated.
>
> I can't tell if your patch has already been applied upstream or if it's
> a "reverse" patch. The current distfile matches the "+++" version at line
> 1185. (normally the "+++" file is the new version but it's easy to get
> the order reversed if you're not used to running diff).
>
> You could always just try the patch. Something along the lines of this:
>
> cd /usr/ports/ftp/wget
> make clean
> make patch            #extract the distfiles and apply FreeBSD patches
> cd work/wget-1.11.4/src
> vi ftp.c              #or any editor you like
>   ...go to line 1185 and change "==" to "!="
>   ...save and quit the editor
> cd /usr/ports/ftp/wget
> make
> make deinstall && make reinstall
>   ... try your procedure again.
>
> If you don't like the results a "make clean" will erase your (modified)
> work directory and you can build the original version again.

Thank you John.  That was a simple procedure, but unfortunately the patch
did not fix the problem.

Regards,

Joe
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