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Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>>> When I tried this in my wget, I got different behavior with wget 1.11
>>> alpha and wget 1.10.2
>>>
>>> D:\>wget --proxy=off -r -l 1 -nc -np http://localhost/test/
>>> File `localhost/test/index.html' already there; not retrieving.
>>>
>>>
>>> D:\>wget110 --proxy=off -r -l 1 -nc -np http://localhost/test/
>>> File `localhost/test/index.html' already there; not retrieving.
>>>
>>> File `localhost/test/a.gif' already there; not retrieving.
>>>
>>> File `localhost/test/b.gif' already there; not retrieving.
>>>
>>> File `localhost/test/c.jpg' already there; not retrieving.
>>>
>>> FINISHED --20:31:41--
>>> Downloaded: 0 bytes in 0 files
>>>
>>> I think wget 1.10.2 behavior is more correct. Anyway it did not abort
>>> in my case.
>> I think I like the 1.11 behavior (I'm assuming it's intentional).
> 
> Let me recap to see if I understand the difference.  From the above
> output, it seems that 1.10's -r descended into an HTML even if it was
> downloaded.  1.11's -r assumes that if an HTML file is already there,
> then so are all the other files it references.
> 
> If this analysis is correct, I don't see the benefit of the new
> behavior.  If index.html happens to be present, it doesn't mean that
> the files it references are also present.  I don't know if the change
> was intentional, but it looks incorrect to me.

Oh. Um, yeah, I think I had it swapped. I was thinking the first example
was 1.10.2, and the second 1.11, but judging by the names I'm thinking
you're right. In that case, it looks to me like a regression.

Thanks, Hrvoje.

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer...
http://micah.cowan.name/
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