Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
>
> I came across this bug in wget where it gives an error instead of
> following, as it should.
>
> Volker
>
> > wget --version
> GNU Wget 1.5.3
Hmm that's quite old ...
>
> Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
> GNU General Public License for more details.
>
> Written by Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
>
> > cat ./Wns
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> exec wget -Y0 --proxy-pass=none --cache=off \
> -U 'Mozilla/4.7 [en] (WinNT; I)' \
> "$@"
-U that was in 1.5.3 release so you're using some patches ...
>
> > ./Wns http://www.themestream.com/articles/298752.html -S
> --08:52:39-- http://www.themestream.com:80/articles/298752.html
> => `www.themestream.com/articles/298752.html'
> Connecting to www.themestream.com:80... connected!
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
> 2 Connection: close
> 3 Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 19:52:05 GMT
> 4 Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) (Red Hat/Linux)
> 5 Cache-Control: no-cache
> 6 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
> 7 Expires: 0
> 8 Location: /gspd_browse/browse/view_article.gsp?c_id=298752&id_list=&cookied=T
Aha no absolute location, this is a common "bug" in so many web-sites
8-(
> 9 Pragma: no-cache
> 10 Set-Cookie: g-id=pfkocnholppacgapgkll.10024743; expires=Fri, 01-Jan-2010 20:00:
> 00 GMT; path=/
> 11 Set-Cookie: g-id=fnfafclcgnjdmpaccfda.10024748; expires=Fri, 01-Jan-2010 20:00:
> 00 GMT; path=/
> 12 Content-Length: 0
> 13
> Location: /gspd_browse/browse/view_article.gsp?c_id=298752&id_list=&cookied=T [fol
> lowing]
> /gspd_browse/browse/view_article.gsp?c_id=298752&id_list=&cookied=T: Unknown/unsup
> ported protocol.
> Exit 1
Of course unknown protocol ...
Now seriosly: This "bug" has been fixed in release 1.6 look at the
web-site http://sunsite.dk/wget or on a GNU mirror near you (tm)
>
> > ./Wns http://www.themestream.com/'gspd_browse/browse/view_article.gsp?c_id=29875
> 2&id_list=&cookied=T' -S
> --08:53:51-- http://www.themestream.com:80/gspd_browse/browse/view_article.gsp?c_
> id=298752&id_list=&cookied=T
> => `www.themestream.com/gspd_browse/browse/view_article.gsp?c_id=298752
> &id_list=&cookied=T'
> Connecting to www.themestream.com:80... connected!
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> 2 Connection: close
> 3 Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 19:54:03 GMT
> 4 Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) (Red Hat/Linux) PHP/3.0.15 mod_perl/1.21
> 5 Cache-Control: no-cache
> 6 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
> 7 Expires: 0
> 8 Pragma: no-cache
> 9 Set-Cookie: g-id=lacchjobhehcipblkmbg.10024818; expires=Fri, 01-Jan-2010 20:00:0
> 0 GMT; path=/
> 10 Content-Length: 21735
> 11
>
> 0K -> .......... .......... . [100%]
>
> Last-modified header missing -- time-stamps turned off.
> 08:53:56 (7.52 KB/s) - `www.themestream.com/gspd_browse/browse/view_article.gsp?c_
> id=298752&id_list=&cookied=T' saved [21735/21735]
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