"Paul" <pk...@finestplanet.com> writes: > "When wget encounters a URL that ends in a slash, since there's no file > name, wget has no idea what it should name it, but does have to name it > something. So it goes with the traditional "index.html" filename." > > I would like to prevent the downloading of this file retreived when the URL > ends in a slash. How do you do that?
you can't do it. All you can do is to choose a different file name, using the --default-page option to wget. Cheers, Giuseppe