Hello there, I have to say that Wget is one of the most useful tools out there(from my point of view of course). I'm using the Win32 version of it to make life with XP little more bearable. (faking Internet Explorer like mad, all over the place)
Well on to the thing i call a bug. The bug only affects the Win32 version. It seems that when a file name(not the extension) in an URL is either nul, con, com1 and so on Wget goes into an endless loop(did not wait that long though). I reproduced the bug with Win32 versions 1.5.dontremeber, 1.10.1 and 1.10.2. I did also test version 1.6 on Linux but it was not affected. Example URLs that reproduce the bug : wget g/nul wget http://www.gnu.org/nul wget http://www.gnu.org/nul.html wget -o loop.end "http://www.gnu.org/nul.html"; I know that the bug is associated with words which are devices in the windows console, but i don't understand why, since I tried to set the output file to something else. But then again i did not look at the source code so i only have my self to blame. This could be a known problem, or it will not be fixed because Wget is native to Linux, but i thought you guys should at least notified about this. Best regards, Throstur S. Eidsson. p.s. I already sent this e-mail before but i think i ran into trouble with your e-mail confirmation. So here goes take two.
