When something like this happens you need more information. Sometimes -v and the logfile can be enough, sometimes a look at the html helps. In this case opening that page from a browser showed me links pointing to another host, so after a bit of tweaking this seems to work fine(running currently):
wget -vkKrp -l0 -np -e "robots=off" -H -Dwww.nt.ntnu.no,www.chembio.ntnu.no http://www.nt.ntnu.no/~skoge/book/ (watch the wrap) Heiko -- -- PREVINET S.p.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Via Ferretto, 1 ph x39-041-5907073 -- I-31021 Mogliano V.to (TV) fax x39-041-5907472 -- ITALY > -----Original Message----- > From: Yun MO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 2:28 AM > To: Max Bowsher > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Recursive download Problem. > > > Dear Max Bowsher, > > Thank you for the answer. Yes, it works for some sites. I > encountered a > new site again that I could not get the contents in the links. > > The site is > http://www.nt.ntnu.no/~skoge/book/ > and I tried > Wget -r -np -e robots=off http://www.nt.ntnu.no/~skoge/book/ > and > Wget -r -np http://www.nt.ntnu.no/~skoge/book/ > > Both of them failed. Read the robots.txt there was a comment line as > written as > > User-agent: * # directed to all spiders, not just Scooter > Disallow: /RCS > Disallow: /cards > Disallow: /doc > Disallow: /fag > Disallow: /fakultet > Disallow: /foot.shtml > Disallow: /head.html > Disallow: /index.shtml > Disallow: /indexe.shtml > Disallow: /info > Disallow: /inst > Disallow: /ntnubilder > Disallow: /robots.txt > Disallow: /usage > Disallow: /userlist.shtml > Disallow: /users > > Could you help me solve the problem? > > Thank you in advance. > > Mo Yun > > > Max Bowsher wrote: > > Yun MO wrote: > > > >>Dear Ma'am/sir, > >> > >>I could not get all files with "wget -r" command for following > >>address. Would you help me? > >>Thank you in advance. > >> > >>M.Y. > >>----------------------- > >> > >><meta NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex,nofollow"> > > > > > > Wget is obeying the robots instruction. > > > > wget -e robots=off ... > > > > will override. > > > > Max. > > > > > -- > Yun Mo, Ph.D. > > Technology Development Center, Tokyo Electron Ltd. > 650 Mitsuzawa, Hosaka-cho, Nirasaki-shi, Yamanashi 407-0192, Japan > > Phone: +81-551-23-4303 Fax: +81-551-23-4454 > E-mai: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] >