Re: Question re web link conversions
Steven, I`m not trying to blame wget, but rather understand what is going on and perhaps how to correct it. I am using wget version 1.10.2 and Internet Explorer 6.0.2800.1106 on Windows 98SE. However, when I renamed the file, this problem did not occur. So, I think it was something 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 As usual, wget without a version does not adequately describe the wget program you're using, Internet Explorer without a version does not adequately describe the Web browser you're using, and I can only assume that you're doing all this on some version or other of Windows. It might help to know which of everything you're using. (But it might not.) Using GNU Wget 1.10.2c built on VMS Alpha V7.3-2 (wget -V), I had no such trouble with either a Mozilla or an old Netscape 3 browser. (I did need to rename the resulting file to something with fewer exotic characters before I could get either browser to admit that the file existed, but it's hard to see how that could matter much.) It's not obvious to me how any browser could invent a URL to which to go Back, so my first guess is operator error, but it's even less obvious to me how anything wget could do could cause this behavior, either. You might try it with Firefox or any browser with no history which might confuse a Back button. If there's a way to blame wget for this, I'll be amazed. (That has happened before, however.) Steven M. Schweda [EMAIL PROTECTED] 382 South Warwick Street(+1) 651-699-9818 Saint Paul MN 55105-2547
Question re web link conversions
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 (http:...) vice the local file (c:\program files\wget\patents\ . . .). Does this have something to do with how wget converts web links? Is there something I should do differently with wget? I`m not clear on why it would do this. When I save this site directly from IE as an HTML file, it works fine. (When I click back, it goes back to the local file.) Thanks, Alan wget --convert-links --directory-prefix=C:\Program Files\wget\patents --no-clobber http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2Sect2=HITOFFu=/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.htmlr=0p=1f=Sl=50Query=ttl/softwared=PG01
Re: Question re web link conversions
From: Alan Thomas As usual, wget without a version does not adequately describe the wget program you're using, Internet Explorer without a version does not adequately describe the Web browser you're using, and I can only assume that you're doing all this on some version or other of Windows. It might help to know which of everything you're using. (But it might not.) Using GNU Wget 1.10.2c built on VMS Alpha V7.3-2 (wget -V), I had no such trouble with either a Mozilla or an old Netscape 3 browser. (I did need to rename the resulting file to something with fewer exotic characters before I could get either browser to admit that the file existed, but it's hard to see how that could matter much.) It's not obvious to me how any browser could invent a URL to which to go Back, so my first guess is operator error, but it's even less obvious to me how anything wget could do could cause this behavior, either. You might try it with Firefox or any browser with no history which might confuse a Back button. If there's a way to blame wget for this, I'll be amazed. (That has happened before, however.) Steven M. Schweda [EMAIL PROTECTED] 382 South Warwick Street(+1) 651-699-9818 Saint Paul MN 55105-2547
