On Feb 19, 5:55pm, Gary Funck wrote:
>
> One thing that the matching did appear to doing however, is
> first *downloading the entire page* before making the decision
> as to whether to keep the page or not. This is decidely not the
> preferred implementationn -- it wastes bandwidth.
>
Well, wget does have to look into each page in order to
perform its recursive traversal, so it downloads the page first.
However, there are cases when the -l (max. number of levels) option
is asserted where wget would know by definition that the URL it
is looking at is a leaf node (no further traversals would be allowd
by the -l option), and in that case downloading the page is wasted
effort, if its name doesn't match the -A requirement.
