Quoting Kohler Roberto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I am using wget 1.5.3 to get the URL
> "cache_object://localhost:/info" (cache statistics from Squid proxy)
> and the program is changing the URL to
> "ftp://cache_object:21/%2Flocalhost/info" (guess because the
> protocol cache_object is not known).
Exactly. Wget knows nothing about "cache_object:" URL identifier and
it assumes you wanted a FTP one.
> I could not find an option so the program would accept the URL "as
> is".
There is no such an option, sorry. You may only use http://,
https://, or ftp:// URLs with wget.
-- jan
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Jan Prikryl | vr|vis center for virtual reality and visualisation
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