rrgh. I see that you have an option '--spider' to just test the connection, however, it doesn't seem to work unless you place the option *before* the url. ie:
wget --spider 'ftp://stuff' works wheras wget --spider 'ftp://stuff2' doesn't. no - scratch that - it *doesn't* seem to work if before the url. The '-O' command seems to screw it up, if I take that away.. no, even that doesn't work, if I take away -nv, well, no.. that doesn't work either. Using 1.7; this sort of sucks... going to try to upgrade to 1.8.2... Ed
