Re: simple wget question

2007-05-11 Thread R Kimber
On Thu, 10 May 2007 16:04:41 -0500 (CDT) Steven M. Schweda wrote: From: R Kimber Yes there's a web page. I usually know what I want. There's a difference between knowing what you want and being able to describe what you want so that it makes sense to someone who does not know what

--page-requisites and --post-data options

2007-05-11 Thread aulaulau
Hi ! First of all, thank you for this beautifull tool that Wget is. Simply to tell you that if you want, in a script, to make an action on a web server ( by posting datas), an completely mirror the resulting page for offline viewing, you will use --page-requisites and --post-data

Re: --page-requisites and --post-data options

2007-05-11 Thread Steven M. Schweda
From aulaulau: [...] you will use --page-requisites and --post-data options together. Probably not something anyone considered. Is there a way to do it with wget options ? Perhaps use --post-data to get the primary page, and then use -i primary_page (perhaps with -F, perhaps with

Re: simple wget question

2007-05-11 Thread Steven M. Schweda
From: R Kimber What I'm trying to download is what I might express as: http://www.stirling.gov.uk/*.pdf At last. but I guess that's not possible. In general, it's not. FTP servers often support wildcards. HTTP servers do not. Generally, an HTTP server will not give you a list of