i submitted a patch in february.
http://www.mail-archive.com/wget%40sunsite.dk/msg04645.html
http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/409/2003/2/100/10313375/
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Peschko, Edward wrote:
> Just upgraded to 1.8.2 and ok, I think I see the problem here...
>
> --spider only works with h
Just upgraded to 1.8.2 and ok, I think I see the problem here...
--spider only works with html files.. right? If so, why?
> Ed
rrgh.
I see that you have an option '--spider' to just test the connection, however, it
doesn't seem to work unless you place the option *before* the url. ie:
wget --spider 'ftp://stuff'
works
wheras
wget --spider 'ftp://stuff2'
doesn't.
no - scratch that - it *doesn't* seem to work if be