Salvo Bartolotta<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dear wget users/developers,
>
> I may have overlooked something trivial in the comprehensive info wget
> manual. BTW, I am running FreeBSD 4.2-S and using wget-1.6.
>
> I retrieved a number of interesting (linked) files via such a
> web-sucking command as:
>
> >====> wget -O - http://www.coollinks.org/some/subdir/index.html | wget
> -c -p -np --follow-ftp --passive-ftp -A "*","*.*", -k -o coollinks.log
> -U "Mozilla 5.0" -i -
>
>
> Well, actually, wget did a very good job and retrieved what I asked
> it to fetch. However, only part of the linked stuff within the
> http://www.coollinks.org/some/subdir/index.html was converted to
> relative links, despite the fact that the sites referred to, as well
> as the files referred to, WERE downloaded.
>
> Summimg up: I have to cd to one of the downloaded directory and open a
> file; rather, I would prefer accessing those files directly from
> within my browser (lynx/mozilla/galeon/KDE2/whatever...) in a
> "centralized" fashion :-)
>
>
>
> Is this partial link convertion expexted behavio(u)r? What am I
> missing ?
>
> TIA,
> Salvo
>
> P.S. I am not subscribed to your list, please CC me.
The link conversion definitely doesn't work in all cases where it should.
As I recall, some improvements have been made in this area in wget 1.7-dev.
Check out http://sunsite.dk/wget/ for instructions on getting that version.
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