[Bug-wget] robots.txt not working

2012-03-17 Thread phil curb
I just tried creating a web server locally. |I tried creating a web server locally  putting robots.txt in there and using wget  and it didn't work http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=kt1mV2af  C:\rwget 127.0.0.1:56 2012-03-16 19:45:32 (20.0 KB/s) - `index.html' saved [3/3] C:\rwget

Re: [Bug-wget] robots.txt not working

2012-03-17 Thread Micah Cowan
I think you're misunderstanding what was supposed to happen. The robots.txt file is only followed for links that wget is automatically following. This means (a) wget has to be in recursive-descent mode (-r or -m), and (b) it only applies to links that weren't explicitly requested by the user. In