Nic Ferrier wrote: > > Sorry if you're already aware of this... I couldn't find the archives of > this list at GNU. Maybe you should put a link on the page: > http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/
The official web-site is http://wget.sunsite.dk/ Yes, there should be a link from the GNU site. [List] how can it be added ? > > I've discovered that wget doesn't do connection timeouts. That is if the > host it is trying to connect to cannot be reached for some reason then wget > simply hangs. > > I expected wget to return after T seconds after specifying the timeout > option on the command line but it didn't. > > No control of connect timeouts is a serious weakness in a tool designed to > be used for batched downloads... I've had to swap wget for curl for the > particular task I'm working on (which is a pity because in all other > respects I like wget and want to support GNU projects). $ wget --help GNU Wget 1.7, a non-interactive network retriever. Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]... [...] Download: [...] -t, --tries=NUMBER set number of retries to NUMBER (0 unlimits). [...] -T, --timeout=SECONDS set the read timeout to SECONDS. -w, --wait=SECONDS wait SECONDS between retrievals. --waitretry=SECONDS wait 1...SECONDS between retries of a retrieval. [...] Which of this were you using ? And please the next time send bugreports including debug output (wget -d ...) > > Nic Ferrier -- Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards Hack Kampbj�rn
