RE: wget 1.11 alpha 1 released

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Limit file size

I would like to crawl several websites and limit the total number of bytes per downloaded file to 5 MB, just in case I run into some files that are really large. From what I understand after reading through the wget manual, the --quota option could be used to limit the total number of bytes d

wget always downloads big files even if already present

Hi I use wget to mirror some sites, including: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/ blast/db/FASTA I'm using the CentOS 4/RHEL 4 wget version 1.10.2-0.40E I am finding that big files get downloaded each time even if they are already present, older and of the same size. I think I can trace the problem

Suggestion for modification to wget

A lot of packages to build Linux distributions for the embedded world relies on "wget". Typically they are based on a Makefile and a configuration file included by the Makefile.   If a package is to be built, then the package is downloaded to a directory somewhere. The makefile will try to ex