On Friday 15 July 2005 04:32 am, Chris Dew wrote: > Can we have an option to treat backslashes as path separators too? -- > treat-backslashes-as-path-separators > > When a link (usually in a page created by MS Front Page, boo hiss) > contains a backslash as a path separator, wget does not create a new > directory. > > Example: > > <a href="stuff\stuff_index.htm">stuff</a> > > wget will create a file called stuff\stuff_index.htm. The lack of > interpretation of backslashes as path separators also breaks all > relative links within that page. > > If backslashes were treated as path separators, it should create a > directory called stuff and file within called stuff_index.html.
correct me if i am wrong, but isn't this against the standards? IIRC, the only path separator character allowed in URLs is the forward slash. -- Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem... Mauro Tortonesi http://www.tortonesi.com University of Ferrara - Dept. of Eng. http://www.ing.unife.it Institute for Human & Machine Cognition http://www.ihmc.us GNU Wget - HTTP/FTP file retrieval tool http://www.gnu.org/software/wget Deep Space 6 - IPv6 for Linux http://www.deepspace6.net Ferrara Linux User Group http://www.ferrara.linux.it
