Sounds reasonable, my only final comment is that a documentation
change would be welcome pending this updated behavior (assuming that
it is implemented.)

Thanks for your attention.

On 3/13/08, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Note that HTTP doesn't have a real way to detect whether something is a
> "directory" or not, so Wget doesn't have a real way to know what's the
> parent, except by you explicitly putting slashes at the end. From your
> script example:
>
> wget -c --no-proxy -r -np
> http://maps.civicactions.net/maps/geodata/tiger2004fe_polygons/
>
> In this case, "parent" should be /maps/geodata/tiger2004fe_polygons,
> because it ends with a slash. If it's downloading files higher in the
> hierarchy than that, please attach a debug log demonstrating this.
>
> wget -c --no-proxy -r -np
> http://maps.civicactions.net/maps/geodata/tiger2004fe_polygons2
>
> In this case, "parent" should be /maps/geodata. Wget has no reliable way
> of determining whether tiger2004fe_polygons2 should be considered a
> "directory" or not.
>
> There _is_ a heuristic that has been suggested for Wget to make more-
> educated guess as to whether it should consider something a directory,
> which would probably be fairly effective:
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?20519
>
> For now, though, your best bet is to ensure that you terminate your URLs
> with slashes when it's appropriate to do so.
>
> I'm setting the status to invalid, on the assumption that this resolves
> your issue. If you're still seeing problems with this, even when you're
> using slashes appropriately, please set the status back to New, give
> relevant snippets from a log file (with --debug set), and describe the
> differences between what they demonstrate and what you expect.
>
> Ubuntu (and Debian) have not made very significant changes to Wget over
> upstream's version, so actual issues you encounter will tend to be in
> upstream as well as in Ubuntu or Debian. However, I'm the maintainer for
> the upstream project, and monitor launchpad and the Debian bug lists for
> Wget pretty actively, so reporting problems here is fine (though, if
> it's a new bug we haven't started tracking in Savannah yet, it's easier
> for me if you report it there).
>
> ** Changed in: wget (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Invalid
>
> --
> wget does not respect -np flag
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/201854
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