Suggestion: wget -r should fetch images declared in CSS

2007-04-13 Thread J . F . Groff
Hi there, wget -r is very useful to slurp and archive entire web sites, I use it all the time when working with other web designers remotely. However, images declared in CSS rules are ignored by the robot if they are not seen elsewhere in the HTML pages. Therefore, to mirror the site properly,

Re: Feature request: Disable following redirections

2007-04-13 Thread Matthias Vill
Hi there, this is an Post of November 2004 and yesterday I stumbled myself over a situation where I don't want to get redirected. I tried to script-get worksheets with incremental-numbering. Easy you would say: 404 or success so check $?. The server does however try to be nice to me and always

Re: FW: think you have a bug in CSS processing

2007-04-13 Thread J . F . Groff
Neil wrote: When giving it some thought I think a valid argument could be made that the string in the CSS document is not exactly an URL but it is certainly URL-like. The URL-like strings in CSS are actually standard URLs, either absolute or relative, so they shouldn't be a big deal to

RE: FW: think you have a bug in CSS processing

2007-04-13 Thread Tony Lewis
J.F.Groff wrote: Amazingly I found this feature request in a 2003 message to this very mailing list. Are there only a few lunatics like me who think this should be included? Wget is written and maintained by volunteers. What you need to find is a lunatic willing to volunteer to write the code

Re: FW: think you have a bug in CSS processing

2007-04-13 Thread J.F. Groff
Hi Tony, Amazingly I found this feature request in a 2003 message to this very mailing list. Are there only a few lunatics like me who think this should be included? Wget is written and maintained by volunteers. What you need to find is a lunatic willing to volunteer to write the code to

Re: FW: think you have a bug in CSS processing

2007-04-13 Thread J.F. Groff
Oh wait. Somebody already did the patch! http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg09502.html http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wget.patches/1867 I guess it's up to maintainers to decide whether to include this in the standard wget distribution. In the meantime, hearty thanks to