Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
I'd prefer a change that tried to use -a by default and fell back to
what we use now if that fails. Even better would be looking into
recent FTP server features, in the vein of SIZE and MDTM -- there has
to be something.
This would also be okay for my purposes. When I fi
"Carl G. Ponder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This would also be okay for my purposes. When I first ran "wget" I
> was assuming it would get everything, and was surprised and
> disappointed when it didn't. Would you be able to make a
> modification like this any time soon?
I wouldn't count on it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steven M. Schweda) writes:
>> [...] I for one would prefer Wget to be smarter and try to download
>> dot files by default, without the user's intervention.
>
>Given the variability in FTP servers (even among UNIX FTP servers) I
> don't see how this could be done reliably.
I
Hrvoje Niksic:
> But that's the catch, it really doesn't ignore anything, it's just
> that the server isn't listing them. [...]
Exactly. For example, my ISP seems to be using an FTP server from
Sun on its Solaris system, and it lists everything with no extra effort:
alp $ ftp
FTP> debug
"Carl G. Ponder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
>> If nothing else works out, we can add something like that. I for one
>> would prefer Wget to be smarter and try to download dot files by
>> default, without the user's intervention.
>
> Remember, though, that if a new version
Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
If nothing else works out, we can add something like that. I for one
would prefer Wget to be smarter and try to download dot files by
default, without the user's intervention.
Remember, though, that if a new version of "wget" starts downloading the
"." files, while all th
Carl Ponder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How about this, then document "wget" as follows:
>
> By default, for wildcard and recursive operations, "wget"
> *ignores* invisible files (like ".profile", ".rhosts", etc.)
> that begin with '.'.
But that's the catch, it really doe
Carl Ponder wrote:
Hey -- how about making the "-a" the default, then add a command-line
switch that supresses "-a" for servers it won't work with?
Hrvoje Niksic responded:
That would mean using a non-standard extension by default, and putting
the burden to the user to disable it when it m
Carl Ponder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hey -- how about making the "-a" the default, then add a command-line
> switch that supresses "-a" for servers it won't work with?
That would mean using a non-standard extension by default, and putting
the burden to the user to disable it when it misfires
"Tony Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mauro Tortonesi wrote:
>
>> this is a very interesting point, but the patch you mentioned above uses
> the
>> LIST -a FTP command, which AFAIK is not supported by all FTP servers.
>
> As I recall, that's why the patch was not accepted. However, it would
Carl Ponder wrote:
I just started using "wget" to recursively fetch directories, and was
disappointed to find that it didn't get files like ".profile" that start
with ".".
Mauro Tortonesi's response:
this is a very interesting point, but the patch you mentioned above uses the
LIST -a FTP
Mauro Tortonesi wrote:
> this is a very interesting point, but the patch you mentioned above uses
the
> LIST -a FTP command, which AFAIK is not supported by all FTP servers.
As I recall, that's why the patch was not accepted. However, it would be
useful if there were some command line option to
On Friday 19 August 2005 11:50 am, Carl G. Ponder wrote:
> I just started using "wget" to recursively fetch directories, and was
> disappointed to find that it didn't get files like ".profile" that start
> with ".". I see there are fixes posted in the web at sites like
>
> http://www.unixwiz.
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