On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: So, nothing? No thoughts?
-Dan
Hey all... I recently went to mirror an ebay page. As would be expected, it had links in it which pointed to another site... In this case, it was http://www.justsaturn.com/%7Eintlautoexchange The files downloaded fine, and converted fine, but when wget rewrote the links, it linked at (in my case): http://www.gushi.org/lj/mv1/www.justsaturn.com/%7Eintlautoexchange/ In fact, if you look at this url: http://www.gushi.org/lj/mv1/www.justsaturn.com/ You can see that the directory EXISTS. Problem is, to access it through a browser, one other tweak in the conversion needs to be done -- it needs to be rewritten as %257e (to escape the % in %7e). I've seen unofficial patches to allow wget to save the ~ character directly. But there's got to be a better way to make sure this behavior is more consistent, in a manner that will work on both FILESYSTEMS (which would be confused by the extra link) and WEBSERVERS (which would understand it). I believe the correct way is the approach to make it compatible for webservers, since in all reality you will be looking at HTTP pages with a browser, even if the access it local, and every browser from lynx to firefox will internally rerender %*something**something* as appropriate...so no matter what, I cannot go to a directory called %7Ewhatever, by name (whether there's an httpd in the middle, or it's on the local fileserver). -Dan -- --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org ---------------------------
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