Thanks for the clarification -- man-page versus authorative info-manual.
If you allow me to give you some feedback:
I honestly overread the information in the manpage, as I thought the
bottom paragraphs are only some examples and special cases.
I think the fact, that --page-requisites internally invokes a special
kind of recursive mode, is so essential, that this information should
appear in one of the first paragraphs of the --page-requisites section.
Regards, Stefan Nowak
On 19.06.2008 at 19:48 Micah Cowan wrote:
Stefan Nowak wrote:
Does --page-requisites load content from other hosts as well, or
must I explicitly issue a --span-hosts with it?
The manpage unambiguously says about --span-hosts "Enable spanning
across hosts when doing recursive retrieving", but at the --span-
hosts section it does not mention whether wget will load from
other hosts or only the mother host.
--page-requisites invokes a special kind of recursion (and the
manpage says this), so the manpage is pretty clear about what's
required (i.e., yes, you need --span-hosts, just as you would for -r).
The manual makes this even more clear in the following text:
Actually, to download a single page and all its requisites (even
if they exist on separate websites), and make sure the lot
displays properly locally, this author likes to use a few options
in addition to -p:
wget -E -H -k -K -p http://<site>/<document>
(Note, btw, that the authoritative source for information about
Wget is the info manual, not the man page.)
