On 7/14/07, Matthias Vill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So you would suggest handling in the way that when I use
wget --base=/some/serverdir http://server/serverdir/
"/.*" will be interpreted as "/some/.*" so if you have a link like
"/serverdir/" it would go back to "/some/serverdir", right?

Correct.

I guess this would be ok. Just one question if there is a Link back to
/serverdir/ and base is something like /my/dir/ shouldn't this also be
fetched from inside /my/dir/ and not /my/serverdir/?

Take a look at the directory structure:

/my/dir
/my/dir/www.foo.bar
/my/dir/www.foo.bar/serverdir

Suppose we have a link in /my/dir/www.foo.bar/serverdir like this:

<a href="/jobs.php">Jobs</a>

This link (if called locally) would try to fetch a file on the root
directory of the operating system, not the website. It would probably
get a 403 or a 404 error. What we would want it to look like is this:

<a href="../jobs.php">Jobs</a>

This method will work no matter what the --base parameter is.

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