Hi, the default is to try 20 times with a increasing wait time inbetween (that is documented).
Add --tries=1 and it will behave as you want. Regards, Tim On 10/24/18 7:12 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > Hi, > > The second command hangs forever. I am not sure what is wrong with it. > My understanding is that if I set connect-timeout short enough, wget > should fail. Could anybody let me know how to get this behavior? (See > the curl output below as a reference.) > > $ time wget -qO- http://httpbin.org/get > { > "args": {}, > "headers": { > "Accept": "*/*", > "Accept-Encoding": "identity", > "Connection": "close", > "Host": "httpbin.org", > "User-Agent": "Wget/1.19.5 (darwin17.7.0)" > }, > "origin": "165.91.49.229", > "url": "http://httpbin.org/get"; > } > > real 0m0.237s > user 0m0.005s > sys 0m0.006s > $ wget --connect-timeout .0001 -qO- http://httpbin.org/get > $ curl --connect-timeout .1 http://httpbin.org/get > curl: (28) Connection timed out after 100 milliseconds >
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