On Feb 19, 1:51pm, Dan Harkless wrote:
>
> Dunno about other programs, but you could try Soenke Peter's wget-1.5.3gold,
> which has the Perl regular expression library integrated for use with
> --accept and --reject (see attached mail).
>
> At this time, no opinion has been expressed as to whether the mainline Wget
> should include this change.
Dan, thanks. Looks like that would be just the ticket, however,
at the present time, this URL (and the top-level web site) come
up empty:
http://www.simprovement.com/linux/files/wget-1.5.3gold2.tar.gz
> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 01:43:15 +0200
> From: "Soenke J. Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[...]
>
> If you include this feature, any Perl-ish regex can be used on
> "--accept" and "--reject" options, the old aren't the supported any
> more.
> Examples:
> -A 'HTML,HTM,JPG,JPEG' is now: -A 'HTM.?$|JP.?G$'
> Or when mirroring Apache servers:
> -R '^\?.=[AD]'
>
> This seems to be quite complicated for those who did never use Perl, but
> it is powerful as hell.
> BTW: Matching is done case-independently.
>
> Attached is a patch against my last "gold" version.
>
> The most recent package for now is
> http://www.simprovement.com/linux/files/wget-1.5.3gold2.tar.gz
> Or try
> http://www.simprovement.com/linux/frech.cgi
>
> My "gold" version includes some patches from this list (e.g. preliminary
> HTTPS support) and my own extensions.
Would you happen to have another URL/source for this version of wget
(I checked a few of the wget sites, but didn't find it). Thanks.
