The download is superfluous in this case.But for a recursive download, it needs to be done (wget2 parses HTML in memory).
Instead of '(2)', I'd like to have a more verbose '(2: Permission denied)'.
Regards, Tim On 10/21/23 20:42, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
On 21 Oct 2023 at 19:22, Tim Rühsen wrote: Date sent:Sat, 21 Oct 2023 19:22:25 +0200 Subject:Re: wget claims "Success" when it failed to write to local directory To:Christian Rosentreter <kar...@gmx.net>, bug-wget@gnu.org From:Tim Rühsen <tim.rueh...@gmx.de>Did a test with wget2 and get this result with error (2) if no write permission?wget2 https://www.christianrosentreter.com/ Failed to open 'index.html' (2)index.html 100% [=====================================================================>] 1.89K --.-KB/s [Files: 1 Bytes: 1.89K [2.23KB/s] Redirects: 0 Todo: 0 Errors: 0 ]With write permission it downloads index.html fine. wget2 https://www.christianrosentreter.com/index.html 100% [====================================================================>] 1.89K --.-KB/s [Files: 1 Bytes: 1.89K [2.27KB/s] Redirects: 0 Todo: 0 Errors: 0 ]Hi, do you run the latest wget (1.21.4)? With that version, you get a Cannot write to 'index.html' (Permission denied). Regards, Tim On 10/21/23 17:16, Christian Rosentreter wrote:> > Hi there, > > There's a minor cosmetic bug in wget 1.x where it claims "Success" when it in fact entirely failed to write to the local> disk, e.g. because of missing permissions/ write access to the current directory. The return code is "3" however, so it's > basically only the message that it prints on screen that is funny in a suspicious way:> > > ### Prepare situation…> $ mkdir foobar > $ chmod -w foobar # remove write access > $ cd foobar> > > ### Note: the "Permission denied" and "Cannot write to" messages, but we> ### get a "(Success)" anyway: > $ wget https://www.christianrosentreter.com/ > --2023-10-21 17:05:35-- https://www.christianrosentreter.com/ > Resolving www.christianrosentreter.com (www.christianrosentreter.com)... 85.13.142.16 > Connecting to www.christianrosentreter.com (www.christianrosentreter.com)|85.13.142.16|:443... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > Length: unspecified [text/html] > index.html: Permission denied> > Cannot write to 'index.html' (Success). > > > ### The return code seems to be reasonable though:> $ echo $? > 3> > > ### Version tested:> $ wget --version > GNU Wget 1.21.4 built on darwin14.5.0.> > +cares +digest -gpgme +https +ipv6 +iri +large-file +metalink -nls> +ntlm +opie +psl +ssl/openssl> > …cut… > > > > >+------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mi...@guam.net mailto:msetze...@gmail.com Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+
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