Recently I used the following wget command under a hosted linux account:
$ wget -mirror <url> -o mirror.log
The web site contained files and virtual directories that contained spaces in the names.
URL encoding translated these spaces to %20.
wget correctly URL decoded the file names (creating file names containing spaces) but incorrectly failed to URL decode the directory names (creating directory paths containing %20 instead of spaces). The resulting mirror therefor contained broken links. Some hyper links were embedded inside flash graphics files so hyper link renaming was not an option. Personally, I would never put a space in a web hosted file or directory name but in this case I was migrating a web site that had been developed by someone else. I think that mirroring should work regardless in this case.
Example: Original path: abc def/xyz pqr.gif After wget mirroring: abc%20def/xyz pqr.gif (broken link)
wget --version is GNU Wget 1.8.2
Thanks for the invaluable wget.
Tony O'Hagan.
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