Re: wget -O writes empty file on failure
Mauro Tortonesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the following patch (just commited into the trunk) should solve the problem. I don't think that patch is such a good idea. -O, as currently implemented, is simply a way to specify redirection. You can think of it as analogous to command file in the shell. In that light, leaving empty files makes perfect sense (that's what shell does with nosuchcommand foo). Most people, on the other hand, expect -O to simply change the destination file name of the current download (and fail to even consider what should happen when multiple URLs are submitted to Wget). For them, the current behavior doesn't make sense. Until -O is changed to really just change the destination file name, I believe the current behavior should be retained.
--page-requisites option
Hello, I haven't a .wgetrc. I'm on Kubuntu I tried with the Kubuntu wget and I compiled the wget from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/ This command : wget --page-requisites http://www.cplusplus.com doesn't download the image that are needed for display in a given HTML page. The picture at the tof left of the HTML page is written like this : a href=/ img src=/img/headlogo1.gif width=165 height=75 border=0 /a For me, wget should write the image in www.cplusplus.com/imgs/headlogo1.gif but it doesn't. May I doesn't understand this option, and it is the case, could explain me how can i do to wget this adress http://www.cplusplus.com. Sorry for English, I'm french. Anyway, Thanks for wget. Cordially Florent Ourth ___ Nouveau : téléphonez moins cher avec Yahoo! Messenger ! Découvez les tarifs exceptionnels pour appeler la France et l'international. Téléchargez sur http://fr.messenger.yahoo.com
Re: wget -O writes empty file on failure
Hrvoje Niksic wrote: Mauro Tortonesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the following patch (just commited into the trunk) should solve the problem. I don't think that patch is such a good idea. -O, as currently implemented, is simply a way to specify redirection. You can think of it as analogous to command file in the shell. In that light, leaving empty files makes perfect sense (that's what shell does with nosuchcommand foo). Most people, on the other hand, expect -O to simply change the destination file name of the current download (and fail to even consider what should happen when multiple URLs are submitted to Wget). For them, the current behavior doesn't make sense. Until -O is changed to really just change the destination file name, I believe the current behavior should be retained. you might be actually right. the real problem here is that the semantics of -O are too generic and not well-defined. as you say, we should split the redirection and output filename functions in two different commands. in this case, the redirection command would simply write all the downloaded data to the output without performing any trasformation. on the other hand, the output filename command could perform more complex operations, like saving downloaded resources in a temporary file, parsing them for new URLs (maybe also providing a programming hook for external parsers) and writing the resources to their destination, archiving them in a well defined format in case of multiple downloads. what do you think? -- Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem... Mauro Tortonesi http://www.tortonesi.com University of Ferrara - Dept. of Eng.http://www.ing.unife.it GNU Wget - HTTP/FTP file retrieval tool http://www.gnu.org/software/wget Deep Space 6 - IPv6 for Linuxhttp://www.deepspace6.net Ferrara Linux User Group http://www.ferrara.linux.it
Local source port binding
Hi there, I'm wondering if anyone has a patch to allow a user to select the source port to use when running wget on the command line, or if not, if anyone would be willing to add that? I have an HTTP-based application which I need to ensure is being called by the client as root, and the easiest way to do this is for me to bind to a privileged port. Unfortunately I've not been able to find any command-line HTTP client (wget, curl, elinks, lynx, etc) which has the ability to do this. Thanks for any assistance! (I've not yet subscribed to the list yet, btw, so please CC me on any replaces. Thanks again!) -- Geoff Silver Sr. Systems Administrator
Re: --page-requisites option
wget -V should tell us which Wget version you are using. 1.10.2 is the latest released version. http://directory.fsf.org/wget.html Adding -d to the command may generate some useful output. Steven M. Schweda (+1) 651-699-9818 382 South Warwick Street[EMAIL PROTECTED] Saint Paul MN 55105-2547
Re: wget -O writes empty file on failure
Mauro Tortonesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: you might be actually right. the real problem here is that the semantics of -O are too generic and not well-defined. The semantics of -O are well-defined, but they're not what people expect. In other words, -O breaks the principle of least surprise. in this case, the redirection command would simply write all the downloaded data to the output without performing any trasformation. on the other hand, the output filename command could perform more complex operations, That seems to break the principle of least surprise as well. If such an option is specified, maybe Wget should simply refuse to accept more than a single URL.
