Re: Wget and Yahoo login?

2008-09-10 Thread Tony Godshall
And you'll probably have to do this again- I bet yahoo expires the session cookies! On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Donald Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After surprisingly little struggle, I got Plan B working -- logged into > yahoo with wget, saved the cookies, including session cookies, an

Re: .1, .2 before suffix rather than after

2007-11-29 Thread Tony Godshall
... > At the release of Wget 1.11, it is my intention to try to attract as > much developer interest as possible. At the moment, and despite Wget's > pervasive presence, it has virtually no user or developer community. > Given the amount of work that needs to be done, this is not good. The > announ

Re: wget2

2007-11-29 Thread Tony Godshall
On Nov 29, 2007 4:02 PM, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Alan Thomas wrote: > > What is wget2? Any plans to move to Java? (Of course, the latter > > will not be controversial. :) > > Java is not likely. The most likely language i

Re: wget2

2007-11-29 Thread Tony Godshall
On Nov 29, 2007 3:48 PM, Alan Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is wget2? Any plans to move to Java? (Of course, the latter > will not be controversial. :) Troll ;-)

Re: Can't add ampersand to url I want to get

2007-11-20 Thread Tony Godshall
Single quotes will work when a URL includes a dollar sign. Double quotes won't. On Nov 5, 2007 12:07 PM, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Alles, Kris wrote: > > I tried wrapping the url with double quotes instead of single quotes and >

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

2007-11-10 Thread Tony Godshall
sounds like a shell issue. assuming you are on a nix, try 'pass' (so shell passed the weird chars literally. If you are on Windows, it's another story. On 11/10/07, Uma Shankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi - > I've been struggling to download data from a protected site. The man pages > intruc

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-11-02 Thread Tony Godshall
On 11/2/07, Tony Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micah Cowan wrote: > > > Keeping a single Wget and using runtime libraries (which we were terming > > "plugins") was actually the original concept (there's mention of this in > > the first post of this thread, actually); the issue is that there ar

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-11-01 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/31/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Tony Godshall wrote: > > On 10/30/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA256 > &g

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-10-31 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/30/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Tony Godshall wrote: > > Perhaps the little wget could be called "wg". A quick google and > > wikipedia search shows no real namespace collisions.

Re: More portability stuff [Re: gettext configuration]

2007-10-30 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/29/07, Dražen Kačar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micah Cowan wrote: > > > AFAIK, _no_ system supports POSIX 100%, > > AIX and Solaris have certified POSIX support. That's for the latest, > IEEE Std 1003.1-2001. More systems have certified POSIX support for the > older POSIX release. > > OTOH,

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-10-30 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/26/07, Josh Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/26/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And, of course, when I say "there would be two Wgets", what I really > > mean by that is that the more exotic-featured one would be something > > else entirely than a Wget, and would have

Re: --limit-percent N versus --limit-rate N% ?

2007-10-20 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/19/07, Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micah Cowan wrote: > > Also: does the current proposed patch deal properly with situations such > > as where the first 15 seconds haven't been taken up by part of a single > > download, but rather several very small ones? I'm not very famili

Re: Port range option in bind-address implemented?

2007-10-18 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/18/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Tony Godshall wrote: > > On 10/17/07, Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 10/17/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > &

Re: Port range option in bind-address implemented?

2007-10-17 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/17/07, Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/17/07, Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/17/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > >

Re: Port range option in bind-address implemented?

2007-10-17 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/17/07, Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/17/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > Tony Godshall wrote: > > >> Well, I'm don't have much to say a

Re: Port range option in bind-address implemented?

2007-10-17 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/17/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Tony Godshall wrote: > >> Well, I'm don't have much to say about about the other points but one > >> certainly does not need to keep an array

Re: Port range option in bind-address implemented?

2007-10-17 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/17/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Oleg Ace wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > Was the feature being discussed here > > http://www.mail-archive.com/wget@sunsite.dk/msg05546.html > > and here > > http://www.mail-archive.com/wget@sun

Re: Ignoring robots.txt [was Re: wget default behavior...]

2007-10-17 Thread Tony Godshall
> Tony Godshall wrote: > >> ... Perhaps it should be one of those things that one can do > >> oneself if one must but is generally frowned upon (like making a > >> version of wget that ignores robots.txt). > > > > Damn. I was only joking about ignor

Ignoring robots.txt [was Re: wget default behavior...]

2007-10-17 Thread Tony Godshall
> ... Perhaps it should be one of those things that one can do > oneself if one must but is generally frowned upon (like making a > version of wget that ignores robots.txt). Damn. I was only joking about ignoring robots.txt, but now I'm thinking[1] there may be good reasons to do so... maybe it

Re: wget default behavior [was Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"]

2007-10-17 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/17/07, Matthias Vill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tony Godshall wrote: > > If it was me, I'd have it default to backing off to 95% by default and > > have options for more aggressive behavior, like the multiple > > connections, etc. > > I don't like

Re: ... --limit-rate nn%

2007-10-17 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/17/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Tony Godshall wrote: > > About the parser... I'm thinking I can hack the parser that now > > handles the K, M, etc. suffixes so it works as it did befor

Re: wget default behavior [was Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"]

2007-10-16 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/13/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > > > On 10/13/07, Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> OK, so let's go back to basics for a moment. > >> > >> wget'

Re: ... --limit-rate nn%

2007-10-16 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/15/07, Matthias Vill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micah Cowan schrieb: > > Matthias Vill wrote: > >> I would appreciate having a --limit-rate N% option. > > > >> So now about those "broken" cases. You could do some "least of both" > >> policy (which would of course still need the time to do m

Re: PATCHES file removed

2007-10-15 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/13/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > > Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> FYI, I've removed the PATCHES file. Not because I don't think it's > >> useful, but because the information needed up

Re: wget default behavior

2007-10-14 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/14/07, Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Tony Godshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > OK, so let's go back to basics for a moment. > > > > wget's default behavior is to use all available bandwidth. > > And so is

Re: wget default behavior [was Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"]

2007-10-14 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/13/07, Josh Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/13/07, Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, you may have such problems but you are very much reaching in > > thinking that my --linux-percent has anything to do with any failing > > in

Re: wget default behavior [was Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"]

2007-10-13 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/13/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > > > On 10/13/07, Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> OK, so let's go back to basics for a moment. > >> > >> wget'

Re: wget default behavior [was Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"]

2007-10-13 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/13/07, Josh Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/13/07, Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, so let's go back to basics for a moment. > > > > wget's default behavior is to use all available bandwidth. > > > > Is this

Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"

2007-10-13 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/12/07, Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Tony Godshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> My point remains that the maximum initial rate (however you define > >> "initial" in a protocol as unreliable as TCP/IP) can and will

wget default behavior [was Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"]

2007-10-13 Thread Tony Godshall
OK, so let's go back to basics for a moment. wget's default behavior is to use all available bandwidth. Is this the right thing to do? Or is it better to back off a little after a bit? Tony

Re: anyone look at the actual patch? anyone try it? [Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"]

2007-10-12 Thread Tony Godshall
... > > I guess I'd like to see compile-time options so people could make a > > tiny version for their embedded system, with most options and all > > documentation stripped out, and a huge kitchen-sink all-the-bells > > version and complete documentation for the power user version. I > > don't thi

Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"

2007-10-12 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/12/07, Josh Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/12/07, Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Again, I do not claim to be unobtrusive. Merely to reduce > > obtrusiveness. I do not and cannot claim to be making wget *nice*, > > just nicER. &g

Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"

2007-10-12 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/12/07, Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Tony Godshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> > available bandwidth and adjusts to that. The usefullness is in > >> > trying to be unobtrusive to other users. > >> > >&

Re: anyone look at the actual patch? anyone try it? [Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"]

2007-10-11 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/11/07, Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > I have, yes. And yes, it's a very small patch. The issue isn't so much > > about the extra code or code maintenance; it's more about extra > > documentation, and avoiding too much clutter of

Re: anyone look at the actual patch? anyone try it? [Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"]

2007-10-11 Thread Tony Godshall
... > I have, yes. And yes, it's a very small patch. The issue isn't so much > about the extra code or code maintenance; it's more about extra > documentation, and avoiding too much clutter of documentation and lists > of options/rc-commands. I'm not very picky about adding little > improvements to

anyone look at the actual patch? anyone try it? [Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"]

2007-10-11 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/11/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Tony Godshall wrote: > > On 10/10/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> My current impression is that this is a useful addition f

Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"

2007-10-11 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/10/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Tony Godshall wrote: > > The scenario I was picturing was where you'd want to make sure some > > bandwidth was left available so that unfair routers wouldn

Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"

2007-10-10 Thread Tony Godshall
> >> I think there is still a case for attempting percent limiting. I > >> agree with your point that we can not discover the full bandwidth of > >> the link and adjust to that. The approach discovers the current > >> available bandwidth and adjusts to that. The usefullness is in > >> trying to

Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"

2007-10-10 Thread Tony Godshall
Indeed. On 10/10/07, Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think there is still a case for attempting percent limiting. I > > agree with your point that we can not discover the full bandwidth of > > the link and adjust to that. The approach disc

Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"

2007-10-10 Thread Tony Godshall
On 10/10/07, Tony Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > > > Measuring initial bandwidth is simply insufficient to decide what > > bandwidth is really appropriate for Wget; only the user can know > > that, and that's what --limit-rate does. > > The user might be able to make a re

Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"

2007-10-10 Thread Tony Godshall
> Jim Wright wrote: > > I think there is still a case for attempting percent limiting. I agree > > with your point that we can not discover the full bandwidth of the > > link and adjust to that. The approach discovers the current available > > bandwidth and adjusts to that. The usefullness is in

Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"

2007-10-10 Thread Tony Godshall
> ... I worry that that might be more harmful to those sharing channel in cases > like Hvroje's ... Sorry, Hvroje, Jim, I meant Jim's case. Tony

Re: working on patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"

2007-10-10 Thread Tony Godshall
> > >> - --limit-rate will find your version handy, but I want to hear from > > >> them. :) > > > I would appreciate and have use for such an option. We often access > > > instruments in remote locations (think a tiny island in the Aleutians) > > > where we share bandwidth with other organization

not dominating bandwidth & caching a value [Re: ... patch to limit to "percent of bandwidth"]

2007-10-09 Thread Tony Godshall
> [private response to limit list clutter] or not. oops. >... > Note though that my patch *does* dominate the bandwidth for about 15 seconds > to measure the available bandwidth before it falls back. On my > network, it seemed > to take a few seconds before enough bytes were transferred to get

Initial draft- patch to limit bandwidth by percent of measured rate

2007-10-08 Thread Tony Godshall
Please find attached... The quick test: If you run wget with --limit-percent 50, you should see it run at full blast for 15 seconds and then back off till it's downloading at 50% the rate it acheived in the first 15 seconds. This is only the initial Works For Me version of the patch. Comments w