Re: wget POST 'multipart/form-data' problem (win xp sp2)
Gerhard Blum [EMAIL PROTECTED] news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] hi, i'm wondering if my mail 2 weeks ago was received... or am i too silly to ask correct, or is this problem off topic? could someone please be so kind and send a short reply - thanks a lot Hi, Gerhard Blum. I am also a new reader of this conference. It seems to me everyone is dead here. Sorry, I can't help you with your problem.
Wget timestamping is flawed across timezones
Dear wget developers. I'm sure this has been reported before, and I've seen references to it going back all the way to 2003 but the problem I'm facing is still there in wget version 1.10.2. When I turn on --timestamping I suspect, as the manual says, that the time tags are preserved. But that is not the case. It only preserves the time stamp when the ftp server and the machine your are running wget on are in THE SAME TIMEZONE. The are many cases where that is not the case: - some ftp server choose to run in UTC (GMT) time zone, no matter where they are. - when I am in the US and I download from Europe, the files I download are off by 6 hours. Wget clearly tries to match the time stamp that it gets in the .listing file. But that file has the time tags of the files in the server's time zone, not in the time zone wget is running in. Can this be fixed? Regards, Remko
Re: Wget timestamping is flawed across timezones
From: Remko Scharroo: Can this be fixed? Of course it can be fixed, but someone will need to fix it, which would involve defining the user interface and adding the code to do the actual time offset. I assume that the user will need to specify the offset. For an indication of what could be done, you might look for WGET_TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL in my VMS-adapted src/ftp-ls.c: ftp_parse_vms_ls(). http://antinode.org/dec/sw/wget.html This is a common problem on VMS systems, which normally (sadly), use local time instead of, say, UTC. One result of this is that FTP servers on VMS tend to provide file date-times in the server's local time. I chose to add an environment variable (a VMS logical name on a VMS system) as the user interface for code simplicity (less work for me), and partly because VMS uses a similar logical name (SYS$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL) to specify the offset from UTC to local time, so the concept would already be familiar to a VMS user. I use WGET_TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL in the code only for a VMS FTP server, but I assume that it could easily be adapted to the other ftp_parse*_ls() functions. (Or a new command-line option could be used to specify the offset.) When I did the work, I probably didn't consider the possibility that any non-VMS FTP servers would provide file date-times in non-UTC. Otherwise I might have made it more general. Trying to get my VMS-related changes into the main Wget development stream has been sufficiently unsuccessful that I don't spend much time working on adding features and fixes which are not trivially easy and which I don't actually need myself. But I wouldn't try to discourage anyone else. Steven M. Schweda [EMAIL PROTECTED] 382 South Warwick Street(+1) 651-699-9818 Saint Paul MN 55105-2547
re: problem at 4 gigabyte mark downloading wikipedia database file.
Hello, I am a former computer tech, and I've followed all instructions closely regarding wget. I am using wget 1.9 in conjunction with the wgetgui program. I have confirmed resumability with smaller binary files, up to 2.3 gigabytes in size. What happens is, that when downloading the wikipedia database, which is about 8 gigabytes, using wget, the download proceeds and is resumable up to about the 4 gig mark, then, when I attempt resumption, the internet connection appears to be working, but the file just sits there, and doesn't increase in size. I theorize that the datastream is being corrupted, and my next step will be to shave pieces of the file off the end, in several megabyte increments, until I reach the uncorrupted part. Please let me know what's going on and why this is happening at this email address, as I am not a developer and not currently subscribed to the mailing list, but I do need to have wget working properly to get the database. Thanks, Jonathan. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
