Paul, I was hoping for something simple like examining the return code for wget. But googling on the topic of wget return codes, took me to here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/Exit-Status.html These codes are very vague (maybe code 4 would work). The note about return codes for older versions convinces me that you are right. Ugh. Jeff Earickson Colby College On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Martin Paul <mar...@par.univie.ac.at> wrote: > Jeff Earickson wrote: >> >> Paul, it would be nice if pca spit up a message if a URL connection >> times out, even if you are not running in debug mode. > > I agree in that it would be nice, but it won't happen. I'm leaving all the > download stuff to wget - and I'm very glad that I don't have to care about > that in PCA - which will timeout eventually, but I have no plans to write > ugly code looking at wget's (debug) output to see what's going on. With all > the redirects and all the changes in Sun's/Oracle's backend infrastructure > in the past, this would be a nightmare. > > Martin. > >
