Hi, I noticed some problems relating to URLs like http://www.example.com/path/to/filename.zip?arg1=somestring&arg2=anotherstring&;...
Wget doesn't strip the ? and following characters from the filename when creating local files. As far as I can tell it doesn't have an option to do that. This can cause several problems: - Local filenames have "garbage" following the actual extension which the user has to manually remove. - Depending on the web server, each download session may result in unique arguments in the URL (e.g. some kind of session ID), making it impossible to easily resume downloading partially-downloaded files. Wget would instead re-download the whole file, saving it under a different name. - The worst problem is that when the arguments following the actual filename in the URL are very long, wget is unable to create the file at all, reporting File name too long So this message is to suggest adding an option to tell wget to strip a question mark and everything after that from the filename part of URLs to get the local file name. -- Mark
