RE: wget feature requests

2003-06-17 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
i submitted a patch in february. http://www.mail-archive.com/wget%40sunsite.dk/msg04645.html http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/409/2003/2/100/10313375/ On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Peschko, Edward wrote: > Just upgraded to 1.8.2 and ok, I think I see the problem here... > > --spider only works with h

RE: wget feature requests

2003-06-17 Thread Peschko, Edward
Just upgraded to 1.8.2 and ok, I think I see the problem here... --spider only works with html files.. right? If so, why? > Ed

wget feature requests

2003-06-17 Thread Peschko, Edward
hey, I was wondering if wget planned or had the following features: 1) trying multiple urls - ie: wget 'http://site1,http://site2,http://site3' would try http://site1 to download, on failure try http://site2, on failure of that try http://site3. 2) just testing the connection without dow

RE: wget feature requests

2003-06-17 Thread Peschko, Edward
rrgh. I see that you have an option '--spider' to just test the connection, however, it doesn't seem to work unless you place the option *before* the url. ie: wget --spider 'ftp://stuff' works wheras wget --spider 'ftp://stuff2' doesn't. no - scratch that - it *doesn't* seem to work if be

request for features

2003-06-17 Thread dEth
Hi all! My situation: a modem on an unlimited night dialup access. About 4 people edit their url.txt files to post there files they want. Then I use cron to divide 9.5 hours of online-time to download all these files. I faces with some problems and need for some features: If there's a working cop

Re: Feature Request: Fixed wait

2003-06-17 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
--- "Aaron S. Hawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how is your request different than --wait ? > I'm not in position to verify right now and it's been a while since I really knew the ins and outs of wget. But IIRC, --wait is only the time between getting files and not the time between initial co

--spider problems

2003-06-17 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
I use the --spider option a lot and don't have trouble with most sites. When using the --spider option for the Mozilla website I get a 500 error response. Without the --spider option I don't receive the problem. Any guesses? $ wget --debug --spider www.mozilla.org DEBUG output created by Wget 1.

Re: suggestion

2003-06-17 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
it's available in the CVS version.. information at: http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/ On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Roman Dusek wrote: > Dear Sirs, > > thanks for WGet, it's a great tool. I would very appreciate one more > option: a possibility to get http page using POST method instead of GET. > > Cheer

Re: Feature Request: Fixed wait

2003-06-17 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
how is your request different than --wait ? On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Wu-Kung Sun wrote: > I'd like to request an additional (or modified) option > that waits for whatever time specified by the user, no > more no less (instead of the linear backoff of > --waitretry which is just a slightly less obnoxi

suggestion

2003-06-17 Thread Roman Dusek
Dear Sirs, thanks for WGet, it's a great tool. I would very appreciate one more option: a possibility to get http page using POST method instead of GET. Cheers, Roman

Feature Request: Fixed wait

2003-06-17 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
I'd like to request an additional (or modified) option that waits for whatever time specified by the user, no more no less (instead of the linear backoff of --waitretry which is just a slightly less obnoxious form of hammering). Looks like it would only take a few lines of code but I can't figure