Re: Updates on Wget Future Directions

2008-04-01 Thread Alan Thomas
Micah, But most importantly, what will the new name of Wget be?

Re: wget running in windows Vista

2008-02-01 Thread Alan Thomas
PROTECTED] To: Alan Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Liz Labbe [EMAIL PROTECTED]; wget@sunsite.dk Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 3:13 PM Subject: RE: wget running in windows Vista OK - ignore what I said - I've been immersed in vista security these days, so thought there might be some issues with wget and uac

Re: wget running in windows Vista

2008-01-31 Thread Alan Thomas
What version of wget? What edition of Vista? I have used the wget 1.10.2 on Vista before. Alan - Original Message - From: Christopher G. Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Liz Labbe [EMAIL PROTECTED]; wget@sunsite.dk Sent: Thursday, January

wget2

2007-11-29 Thread Alan Thomas
What is wget2? Any plans to move to Java? (Of course, the latter will not be controversial. :) Alan

Re: Wget Name Suggestions

2007-11-29 Thread Alan Thomas
How about: -- JustGetIt? --GoFetch? --SuckItUp? -- Hoover? -- DragNet? -- NetSucker?

Re: wget2

2007-11-29 Thread Alan Thomas
Sorry for the misunderstanding. Honestly, Java would be a great language for what wget does. Lots of built-in support for web stuff. However, I was kidding about that. wget has a ton of great functionality, and I am a reformed C/C++ programmer (or a recent Java convert). But I love using

Re: Need help with wget from a password-protected URL

2007-11-11 Thread Alan Thomas
Quotation marks around the text containing special characters should work in Windows batch files. - Original Message - From: Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Uma Shankar [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 12:48 AM Subject: Re: Need help with wget

Re: Software interface to wget

2007-10-04 Thread Alan Thomas
features and plans for good improvements. While it won`t yet meet this one need, I will certainly continue to use it for other purposes. Thanks, Alan - Original Message - From: Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alan Thomas [EMAIL

Re: wget syntax problem ?

2007-09-06 Thread Alan Thomas
command.com By the way, Josh and your messages are being put out to the list in dupicates (at least, that`s what I`m seeing on my end). - Original Message - From: Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alan Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: wget@sunsite.dk Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 9

Re: wget syntax problem ?

2007-09-06 Thread Alan Thomas
Please ignore. It was needing the \\, like Josh said. - Original Message - From: Alan Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Josh Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]; wget@sunsite.dk Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:25 PM Subject: Re: wget syntax problem ? Wget does not like my use

Re: wget syntax problem ?

2007-09-06 Thread Alan Thomas
Wget does not like my use of the --directory-prefix= option. Anyone know why? - Original Message - From: Josh Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alan Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: wget@sunsite.dk Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 8:53 PM Subject: Re: wget syntax problem ? On 9/6/07, Alan

Re: Cannot write to auto-generated file name

2007-04-02 Thread Alan Thomas
This seems to work up to and including 259 characters in the filename (not counting the file extension) on Windows (98). Alan - Original Message - From: Alan Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wget@sunsite.dk Sent: Monday, April 02

Special characters in http

2007-03-31 Thread Alan Thomas
I am using wget 1.10.2 on a Windows 98 machine. I would like to non-interactively query the U.S. patent database. I am using the following wget command: wget --convert-links --directory-prefix=C:\Program Files\wget\perimeter --no-clobber

Re: Special characters in http

2007-03-31 Thread Alan Thomas
Substituting %3E for does not work either. - Original Message - From: Alan Thomas To: wget@sunsite.dk Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 3:23 AM Subject: Special characters in http I am using wget 1.10.2 on a Windows 98 machine. I would like to non-interactively query

Re: Special characters in http

2007-03-31 Thread Alan Thomas
Steven, Thanks! Putting quotes around the http request worked. Alan - Original Message - From: Steven M. Schweda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WGET@sunsite.dk Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 8:27 AM Subject: Re: Special characters in http From: Alan

wildcards in filenames

2007-03-26 Thread Alan Thomas
Forgive me, as I have no experience with Unix, and this might be the source of my problem. . . . How do I specify that I only want, e.g., HTML files that begin with a certain letter from a directory? Putting /l*.htm at the end of the URL did not work: Warning: wildcards not

Re: Question re web link conversions

2007-03-13 Thread Alan Thomas
to do with the characters in the filename, which you mentioned. Thanks, Alan - Original Message - From: Steven M. Schweda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WGET@sunsite.dk Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 1:23 AM Subject: Re: Question re web link conversions From: Alan Thomas

Question re web link conversions

2007-03-12 Thread Alan Thomas
I am using the wget command below to get a page from the U.S. Patent Office. This works fine. However, when I open the resulting local file with Internet Explorer (IE), click a link in the file (go to another web site) and the click Back, it goes back to the real web address

Re: Naming output file

2007-03-11 Thread Alan Thomas
Oh. For some reason, I thought this was just a logfile.Thanks, Alan - Original Message - From: Steven M. Schweda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WGET@sunsite.dk Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 11:44 PM Subject: Re: Naming output file From: Alan Thomas

Syntax for directory names

2007-03-10 Thread Alan Thomas
I would like the output files from a wget command to be stored in a subdirectory (output) of the current directory. To do this, I used the directory-prefix option, but it does not seem to like my syntax. It gives me the error missing URL. The variations I tried for the option are:

Re: Syntax for directory names

2007-03-10 Thread Alan Thomas
Never mind. The correct syntax is --directory-prefix=c:\output\ However, the error was due to a Return vice space before the URL. Duh! Alan - Original Message - From: Alan Thomas To: wget@sunsite.dk Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 9:07 PM Subject: Syntax

Naming output file

2007-03-10 Thread Alan Thomas
Is there a way to tell wget how to name an output file (i.e., not what it is named by the site from which I am retrieving). Thanks, Alan

Re: php form

2007-02-24 Thread Alan Thomas
I see now that I should not have had the single quotes (') around country=US. - Original Message - From: Tony Lewis To: 'Alan Thomas' ; wget@sunsite.dk Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 8:59 PM Subject: RE: php form The table stuff just affects what's shown

Re: php form

2007-02-23 Thread Alan Thomas
, but rather all of the data without that filter (from all countries) came back. Also, this data was in a .php file. Do you know what I am doing wrong?Thanks, Alan - Original Message - From: Tony Lewis To: 'Alan Thomas' ; wget@sunsite.dk Sent: Thursday

Re: php form

2007-02-22 Thread Alan Thomas
post to the php? Thanks, Alan - Original Message - From: Tony Lewis To: 'Alan Thomas' ; wget@sunsite.dk Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:53 AM Subject: RE: php form Look for form action=some-web-page method=XXX ... action tells

php form

2007-02-21 Thread Alan Thomas
There is a database on a web server (to which I have access) that is accessible via username/password. The only way for users to access the database is to use a form with search criteria and then press a button that starts a php script that produces a web page with the results of the

Re: Re: local HTML files

2005-04-29 Thread Alan Thomas
Thanks! - Original Message - From: Hrvoje Niksic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alan Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: wget@sunsite.dk Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 6:16 AM Subject: Re: local HTML files Alan Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can I somehow give wget an HTML file's local hard disk

local HTML files

2005-04-28 Thread Alan Thomas
Can I somehow give wget an HTML file's local hard disk location vice a URL and have it retrieve files at URLs referenced in that HTML file? Thanks, Alan

Re: frames

2005-04-18 Thread Alan Thomas
It doesn`t seem to download the file when I use the debug option. It just quickly says "finished." Hrvoje Niksic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>writes: The log file looks like: 17:54:41 URL:https://123.456.89.01/blabla.nsf/HOBART?opeNFRAMESET [565/565]

Re: frames

2005-04-17 Thread Alan Thomas
The log file looks like: 17:54:41 URL:https://123.456.89.01/blabla.nsf/HOBART?opeNFRAMESET [565/565] - "123.456.89.01/blabla.nsf/HOBART?opeNFRAMESET.html" [1] FINISHED --17:54:41--Downloaded: 565 bytes in 1 filesHrvoje Niksic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: frames

2005-04-16 Thread Alan Thomas
That's probably it. Is there anything I can do to automatically get thefiles with wget? Thanks, Alan- Original Message - From: "Hrvoje Niksic" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: "Alan Thomas" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: wget@sunsite.dkSent: Friday, April 15, 2005 7:23 PMSubject: [sp

re: frames

2005-04-16 Thread Alan Thomas
I use Internet Explorer. I disabled Active Scripting and Scripting of JavaApplets, but I can still access this page normally (even after a restart). Do you Yahoo!? Plan great trips with Yahoo! Travel: Now over 17,000 guides!

frames

2005-04-15 Thread Alan Thomas
A website uses frames, and when I view it in Explorer, it has the URL https://123.456.89.01/blabla.nsf/HOBART?opeNFRAMESETand a bunch of PDF files in two of the frames. When I try to recursively download this web site, I don`t get the files. I am using the following command: wget -nc

Re: [unclassified] Re: newbie question

2005-04-14 Thread Alan Thomas
I got the wgetgui program, and used it successfully. The commands were very much like this one. Thanks, Alan - Original Message - From: Technology Freak [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alan Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 10:12 AM Subject: [unclassified] Re