-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 moisi wrote: > Hello, > > I use wget to retrieve an XML feed. The problem is that sometimes I > get timeout error. I used the good wget options to handle this > problem, but when wget retries to download the file again, the data > are appended to the file which causes a bad file. Here is wget > command line: > > wget -c -nc -O tmp/out.xml -t 5 -w 60 -T 60 > http://url.of.the.feed/feed.xml
Hm. I'm not sure how Wget could deal with this in a general way. We could certainly ask Wget to truncate the output-file, when the output-file refers to a truncate-able file; but it doesn't always (such as with "-O -"). I think you'd be better off without using -O, and rename/append the file after downloading. I believe your use of -c and -nc with -O is not meaningful. -O is meant to work very similarly to a redirection. Hm... but current development Wget seems to have a regression with -nc and -O in relation to Wget 1.10.2: $ ls -a . .. $ wget -c -nc -O foo micah.cowan.name - --2007-11-06 10:55:28-- http://micah.cowan.name/ Resolving micah.cowan.name... 66.150.225.51 Connecting to micah.cowan.name|66.150.225.51|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK File ‘foo’ already there; not retrieving. $ Question to group: should -nc even work with -O? And if so, I suppose the wget-1.10.2 behavior would be the expected... - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHMLl07M8hyUobTrERCM80AJ9ZR0qJfFNdvebtlXVuhvkZpAJ1AwCeI90T C46dvepWUA5Kw47lVrDfYGg= =LA8j -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
