Guillaume Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If wget fetches a url which redirects to another host, wget
> retrieves the file, and there's nothing that can be done to turn
> that off.
>
> So, if you do wget -r on a machine that happens to have a redirect to
> www.yahoo.com you'll wind up trying to pull down a big chunk of
> yahoo.
Hmm. Are you sure? Wget 1.8.1 is trying hard to restrict following
redirections by applying the same rules normally used for following
links. Downloading a half of Yahoo! because someone redirects to
www.yahoo.com is not intended to happen.
I tried to reproduce it by creating a page that redirects to
www.yahoo.com, but Wget behaved correctly:
$ wget -r -l0 http://muc.arsdigita.com:2005/test.tcl
--19:13:53-- http://muc.arsdigita.com:2005/test.tcl
=> `muc.arsdigita.com:2005/test.tcl'
Resolving muc.arsdigita.com... done.
Connecting to muc.arsdigita.com[212.84.246.68]:2005... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://www.yahoo.com [following]
--19:13:53-- http://www.yahoo.com/
=> `www.yahoo.com/index.html'
Resolving www.yahoo.com... done.
Connecting to www.yahoo.com[64.58.76.223]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
[ <=> ] 16,829 22.39K/s
19:13:55 (22.39 KB/s) - `www.yahoo.com/index.html' saved [16829]
FINISHED --19:13:55--
Downloaded: 16,829 bytes in 1 files
Guillaume, exactly how have you reproduced the problem?
