According to Geoff Hutchison: > On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 04:51 PM, Jessica Biola wrote: > > Anyhow, my plan is to use htdig with local_urls and > > local_urls_only -- but it seems to have problems > > pulling up documents that are named like this: > > item.cgi?id=1 or item.cgi?id=10&cata=denim > ... > > I get something like this: > > So htdig finds the file, but then it says local > > retrieval failed. Are there any known issues with > > pulling files with CGI variables in the names? > > No, but I don't know of anyone else who's reported trying it either. > What OS are you using? Some OS and/or filesystems have problems with > certain characters in filenames, and certainly ? and & characters are > among them. > > Personally, I'd rather try using an HTTP proxy to handle local > storage--you can still use wget to "prefetch" things through the proxy, > but the proxy would be better able to handle file retrieval and issues > like dynamic content on the remote server. > > That said, I'd still qualify this as a bug, so it would help to get more > information about your setup.
The problem here is that the resulting local files don't have the file name extensions that the local_urls handling code expects. Without these extensions, htdig has no way of identifying what the content-type of each file is. See the list of recognized file name extensions for local access: http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#local_urls -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Take your first step towards giving your online business a competitive advantage. Test-drive a Thawte SSL certificate - our easy online guide will show you how. Click here to get started: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0027en _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
