Substituting %3E for ">" does not work either.
----- Original Message -----
From: Alan Thomas
To: wget@sunsite.dk
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 3:23 AM
Subject: Special characters in http
I am using wget 1.10.2 on a Windows 98 machine. I would like to
non-interactively query the U.S. patent database. I am using the following
wget command:
wget --convert-links --directory-prefix="C:\Program Files\wget\perimeter"
--no-clobber
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.html&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&Query=isd/1/1/2000->1/1/2010+and+(aclm/(software+and+hardware)+or+ttl/(software+and+hardware))&d=PTXT
However, this query is seen by the server as:
isd/1/1/2000-/1/2010 and (aclm/(software and hardware) or ttl/(software and
hardware))
So, the ">" character is being translated as "/", which the server does not
like (no matches returned).
However, if I open the link below directly in my browser, it works
fine:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.html&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&Query=isd/1/1/2000->1/1/2010+and+(aclm/(software+and+hardware)+or+ttl/(software+and+hardware))&d=PTXT
What is happening? Is the problem due to the fact that the ">"
character is reserved in HTML? Is there something that I should do
differently?
I am still a novice to wget and http. I have looked in the wget
manual (probably not strictly a wget question) and on the web, but have not
found where this is discussed.
Thanks, Alan
