A good idea. Here, list, you probably ought to read this. -Jim
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: no-clobber doesn't work with filename conversion Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:00:30 +0200 From: Jens R�sner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Jim! I go with you on the fact of dynamic pages. Maybe you should forward this to the wget list, I think I forgot to send my mail to you and the list. CU Jens jim wrote: > > Jens, thanks for the speedy response! > > Usually the ? in a URL is a good indicator that a page is dynamic, but > generally speaking, a dynamic page with a query string (the part after the > ?) is generated based on the query string (e.g. it's pulling a record from > a database and the query string contains the record's ID). This means that > you can treat the combination of filename and query string as a unique > identifier and you will usually be right. > > In any case, any page can turn out to be dynamic. There's really no way > you can tell for sure. > > I think the most reasonable behavior is the one I've described, but I'd be > satisfied if the behavior was based on a switch. > > I think the incompatibility of the -E filename conversion is a genuine bug, > however. > > -Jim > > Jens R�sner wrote: > > >Hi Jim! > > > >I am not totally sure, but I think this is done on purpose, > >as files with "?" are normally generated dynamically; > >I remember a post about this on the list. > >I also stumbled over this point but cannot evaluate which > >way of handling these files would be better. > > > >CU > >Jens > > > > > > > >jim wrote: > > > > > >>In wget, the -nc or --no-clobber option doesn't seem to take into account > >>the filename conversion when checking to see if a file exists. > >> > >>This affects files converted with the -E option and the conversion in which > >>? is replaced by @ in order to save in a windows filesystem. > >> > >>-Jim > >> > >> > > > > > >
