WGET Syntax for a URL with cgi scripts.

[Fred Holmes]

The following fails, with error messages that don't make sense to me.

WGET -r -l2 -k -K -p -np -nd "http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/0?r_t=a&r_n=107-791&submit=Search&variant=y&acronym=n&syndict=n&spq=n&sort_by_docid=n&d_q=on&dbname=cp107&maxdocs=100&report=hr791.107&xform_type=3&sel=TOCLIST&";

The URL is a valid one. (It's all one line, wrapped as you may receive it.) The URL works when copy/pasted into the address box of a browser.

It's the Table of Contents page of an html version of House Rept. 107-791. HTML is much easier to read than the .pdf version (which can be downloaded as a single file) or the ASCII version (which can also be downloaded as a single file.

I want to "snag" the entire document, which consists of "chapters" linked to the headings in the Table of Contents document.

It fails with different error messages depending upon whether I put the URL in quotation marks (as above) or not.

I haven't the foggiest idea how to obtain a "direct" address/URL for the document (Table of Contents) or for the links.

If WGET can't handle this is there any other application that will work here?

Thanks,

Fred Holmes