I seem to be running into some dorkish problem downloading the contents of a directory.
I have some of the files in the directory, downloaded, so I turned on timestamping (-N). My .wgetrc has: ------------- follow-ftp=on user-agent="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)" timestamping=on progress=dot:binary no-parent=on ------------- But I've tried various combinations to download the "rpms" in the directory: wget -r -nH http://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/i386/9.3/suse/i586 wget -r -nH http://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/i386/9.3/suse/i586/. (both just download an index.html file) wget -r -nH http://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/i386/9.3/suse/i586/index.html (returns file not found) Tried simarly forms using ftp: wget -r -nH ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/i386/9.3/suse/i586 [...] (worked less well than http, more "404" errors) Also hoped that wildcards might work in ftp, like: wget -r -nH ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/i386/9.3/suse/i586/\*.rpm wget -r -nH --cut-dirs=4 ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/i386/9.3/suse/i586/\* but I kept ketting the error message: -------------------------------- Warning: wildcards not supported in HTTP. --16:57:02-- ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/i386/9.3/suse/i586/* => `i586/*' Resolving ishtar... 192.168.3.1 Connecting to ishtar|192.168.3.1|:8080... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 16:57:03 ERROR 404: Not Found. FINISHED --16:57:03-- Downloaded: 0 bytes in 0 files -------------------------- Originally tried it with cut-dirs=4 but also tried w/o "cut-dirs". Apparently "ftp" through a proxy qualifies as "http" (?). This _seems_ like it should be a simple task. I do know how to work around the problem -- I can manually parse (write some sort of script) the downloaded "index.html" for the directories and use specific filenames for download, *BUT*...um like this doesn't seem like it should be 'rocket science'...am I missing something obvious? I also tried adding "-A rpm" to specifically follow ".rpm" "links". No difference. Sorry to ask what is probably a "simplistic" question, but what am I missing? Thanks IA, Linda
