On 22/10/2007, Tony Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micah Cowan wrote > > > Stuart Moore wrote: > > > Is there any way to get wget to only use the post data for the first > > > file downloaded? > > > > Unfortunately, I'm not sure I can offer much help. AFAICT, --post-file > > and --post-data weren't really designed for use with recursive > > downloading. > > Perhaps not, but I can't imagine that there is any scenario where the POST > data should legitimately be sent for anything other than the URL(s) on the > command line. > > I'd vote for this being flagged as a bug. >
Some places on the net refer to using it for login - so although I agree it's non obvious why you'd want to, there probably needs to be a switch of some kind. Thanks for the advice all. I suspect post-processing by perl is what I'm going to have to do for now. Stuart
