+1 for this question - I have the same problem. On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:21 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there any way to make wget retry on fatal errors? There are cases where > that gets necessary. > > I live in an area where GSM and EDGE/HSDPA leaves a lot to be desired. > Large downloads tend to get stuck -- they can freeze at 2% and stay that way > for days. Thus I have to use wget: set timeouts much shorter than default > (-T 30 or less) and infinite number of retries (-t 0). But sometimes the > connection briefly breaks 4-5 times in an hour. If that happens, wget stops > retrying. > > Is there any way to force wget to continue retrying when the link is down, > there's no server, no DNS, nothing works? Other than launching it from a > script. > > I am using Wget 1.12 under Ubuntu. > >
