Hi,

If I understand timestamping corretly, wget will look at
the content-length header and if the length is different than
the local copy , wget will reget the web page even if the
the remote file is older/same_as the local copy.

The problem is, that my web pages are served up by php
and the content lengh is not defined.  So as the manual states
I use --ignore-length.  But when wget retrieves an image
it slows right down, possibly because it is ignoring
the content-length.  Maybe an option to ignore the
content length of certain file types ( say text/html )
would be an option for upcomming releases of wget.

I would like to point out one thing though.  It seams that
wget does NOT reget all the files ( without --ignore-length )
after a HEAD request.  It looks to me that even though my
server is not sending out the content-length, wget is looking
at the last-modified date and seeing that it is older/same
as the local copy and it is NOT alowing the content length to
'override' the last-modified date as it states in the manual.
Very strange.

"D\wget.exe" -m -p --ignore-length -Dwww.mysite.com -UMY-WGET 
http://www.mysite.com

Thanks,
Bruce

P.S: please cc me as I am not subscribed.



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