Hi there,
this is an Post of November 2004 and yesterday I stumbled myself over a
situation where I don't want to get redirected.
I tried to script-get worksheets with incremental-numbering. Easy you
would say: 404 or success so check $?.
The server does however try to be nice to me and always redirect me to
the previously released worksheet and wget downloads it just again...
So i tried combinations of -l1 and -R but they just are not taken into
account.
For that reason I want to get this topic back to mind. A simple
--follow-redirects switch would be nice or a
--treat-http-status-302-as-error or something like it.
Thanks
Matthias
Peter Valdemar Mørch schrieb:
Hi there,
Having searched the mailing list archives, I've found several requests
to be able to disable the following of redirects, but no solution.
In http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg05320.html, Hrvoje
Niksic writes:
There is currently no way to disable following redirects. A patch to
do so has been submitted recently, but I didn't see a good reason why
one would need it, so I didn't add the option. Your mail is a good
argument, but I don't know how prevalent that behavior is.
Yes, unfortunately a lot of the servers that I'm downloading from do use
e.g. 302 redirects to a page that essentially says "404". AAArrrrhhh...
So right now, I use -o output.log along with
grep '\[following\]' output.log; if [ $? ] ...
to determine if such a redirect has taken place. But it would be much
nicer with just a plain --ignore-redirects or somthing, which would also
save the extra retrieval.
You said (on 17 Sep 2002) that a patch had been submitted... I didn't
find an archive for the wget-patches mailing list, but if it really
isn't possible as-is (1.9.1), I would sure love such a patch...
Peter
