I was hoping to separate the usual news, $ wget http://abc.iis.sinica.edu.tw/ --09:26:00-- http://abc.iis.sinica.edu.tw/ => `index.html' Resolving localhost... done. Connecting to localhost[127.0.0.1]:8080... connected.
from the bad news, Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 503 Connect failed 09:26:00 ERROR 503: Connect failed. but I see they both go to stderr. Also, none of the command line switches affect one without affecting the other. Yes, stdout is reserved for -O -, but there ought to be a switch that will cause no output on stdout unless it is real error output... even -nv doesn't do that. I must now write t=/tmp/site-checker if wget -Y off -t 1 --spider http://jidanni.org/index.html > $t 2>&1 then : else cat $t >> $HOME/errors fi rm $t when instead, wget --real-errors-only-please -q ... >> $HOME/errors Would have done. Then a test -s $HOME/errors is all that would be needed to know there had been trouble.
