RE: How to reject *??=?
I had the same problem under linux... adding the following line to ~/.wgetrc fixed the problem: reject = ?[A-Z]\=[A-Z]
Re: wget 1.8.x proxies
# wget181 -r -np -l0 ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/Linux/mirrors/redhat/redhat/linux/updates ummm... looks like the -l0 might be limiting your recursion level to 0 levels