Re: FTP retrieval not functioning

Quoting Chunks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I did RTFM, and the links to any mailing list archives I could find > were broken. Please accept my apologies in advance if this is > something covered elsewhere. Perhaps ignoring permissions will take > care of it? Could you tell us which links were actuall

Re: wget ftp url syntax is wrong

Quoting Jamie Zawinski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > However, that said, I still think wget should do what Netscape does, > because that's what everyone expects. The concept of a "default > directory" in a URL is silly. The correct approach would be to try "CWD url/dir/path/" (the correct meaning) an

Re: wget ftp url syntax is wrong

Hanno Foest wrote: > >> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/7.0/i386/apache-devel-1.3.14-3.i386.rpm >> ftp://ftp.redhat.com//pub/redhat/updates/7.0/i386/apache-devel-1.3.14-3.i386.rpm ... > I don't think so. The double slash in front of the path part of the URL > starts the path in the ft

Re: wget ftp url syntax is wrong

Quoting Hanno Foest ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:46:51AM -0800, Jamie Zawinski wrote: > > > Netscape can retrieve this URL: > > > > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/7.0/i386/apache-devel-1.3.14-3.i386.rpm > > > > wget cannot. wget wants it to be: > > > > ftp:

Re: wget ftp url syntax is wrong

On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:46:51AM -0800, Jamie Zawinski wrote: > Netscape can retrieve this URL: > > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/7.0/i386/apache-devel-1.3.14-3.i386.rpm > > wget cannot. wget wants it to be: > > ftp://ftp.redhat.com//pub/redhat/updates/7.0/i386/apache-devel-1

Patch: new option --ignore-size

I'm mirroring a very large tree locally. As the tree is larger than the local filesystem, I periodically stop wget, save what I've downloaded on CD-ROM, truncate the saved files to 0 and then start wget -N -r again to get more files. Unfortunately, wget checks not only the mtime but also the size

wget ftp url syntax is wrong

Netscape can retrieve this URL: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/7.0/i386/apache-devel-1.3.14-3.i386.rpm wget cannot. wget wants it to be: ftp://ftp.redhat.com//pub/redhat/updates/7.0/i386/apache-devel-1.3.14-3.i386.rpm I believe the Netscape behavior is right and the wget behavio

wget should only use one FTP connection

If I specify a whole bunch of ftp: URLs to wget that are on the same host, it opens a new connection to the server for each one. It should reuse the same connection if they're on the same host. -- Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwz.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ww