Quoting Tom Gordon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> [...]
> --09:58:49-- ftp://metalab.unc.edu/README
> [...]
Oh, I see. I'm afraid `--spider' will not work with FTP, it's been
probably meant for HTTP only (Hrvoje?) .
The wget user manual says:
| --spider
| When invoked with this option, Wget will behave as a
| Web spider, which means that it will not download the
| pages, just check that they are there. You can use it
| to check your bookmarks, e.g. with:
|
|
| wget --spider --force-html -i bookmarks.html
|
| This feature needs much more work for Wget to get
| close to the functionality of real WWW spiders.
Actually, I guess wget shall be able to work as a spider with FTP
links as well. Will look into that.
-- jan
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Jan Prikryl | vr|vis center for virtual reality and visualisation
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