On Saturday 12 February 2005 06:38 am, Donny Viszneki wrote: > Using GNU Wget 1.9.1... > > I read the source code used for escaping filenames before saving them > to the disk in url.c, and it doesn't seem that it will escape the tilde > ever. This however isn't the problem I'm experiencing. The problem is > that HTTP standards allow for a tilde in a URL, and wget escapes it > (resulting in %7E) before making the HTTP request. > > Why is this such a problem? Well some webservers seem to hit you with a > 302, replacing your %7E with a tilde. So, I see something like this > happening: > > ~/piano$ wget http://www.pitt.edu/~deben/freebies.html > --07:35:29-- http://www.pitt.edu/%7Edeben/freebies.html > => `freebies.html' > Resolving www.pitt.edu... 136.142.42.14 > Connecting to www.pitt.edu[136.142.42.14]:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Object Moved > Location: http://www.pitt.edu/~deben/freebies.html [following] > --07:35:29-- http://www.pitt.edu/%7Edeben/freebies.html > => `freebies.html' > Connecting to www.pitt.edu[136.142.42.14]:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Object Moved > Location: http://www.pitt.edu/~deben/freebies.html [following] > --07:35:30-- http://www.pitt.edu/%7Edeben/freebies.html > => `freebies.html' > Connecting to www.pitt.edu[136.142.42.14]:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Object Moved > Location: http://www.pitt.edu/~deben/freebies.html [following] > --07:35:30-- http://www.pitt.edu/%7Edeben/freebies.html > => `freebies.html' > > [i cut this part out because it was very long and redundant] > > 20 redirections exceeded. > ~/piano$ > > So, you can see what the problem is! I'd have written a patch if I had > found the code responsible for escaping URLs, but I didn't have a lot > of time to look at it. Thanks for your help! I hope you can fix this > problem easily enough!
yes, we need an option to tell wget to disable URL escaping. i am working on it. -- Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem... Mauro Tortonesi University of Ferrara - Dept. of Eng. http://www.ing.unife.it Institute of Human & Machine Cognition http://www.ihmc.us Deep Space 6 - IPv6 for Linux http://www.deepspace6.net Ferrara Linux User Group http://www.ferrara.linux.it
