wget( )

[sjn]

Greetings,

I think I have come across a bug with wget( ), although I cannot be 100% certain.  
Here is a simple instance of it (assuming it is indeed a bug):

[results in core dump]
wget -r --no-parent -A.ptt --no-directories -nv 
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genomes/Bacteria/Bacillus_anthracis_A2012/
22:52:09 URL: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genomes/Bacteria/Bacillus_anthracis_A2012/ [1491] 
-> ".listing" [1]
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

[this runs without a problem]
wget -r --no-parent --no-directories -nv ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genomes
/Bacteria/Bacillus_anthracis_A2012/

(The -A.ptt being the difference.)

If you look at this directory, you'll notice that there are no subdirectories below 
Bacillus_anthracis_A2012 and you may question why I am using -r, with --no-parent.  
The answer is that this is just a boiled-down, repeatable instance that I chose.  A 
similar situation arises wheen using -R as with the -A.

[odd]
When the parent (ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genomes/Bacteria/) is the chosen location, 
using identical input options (including -A and/or -R), some of the bacterium 
subfolders (others like Bacillus_anthracis_A2012, but not that one) do not behave in 
this way - they run without a problem.  When I run against all ~150 child 
subdirectories, about 1/3 of them give the error stated above.  With neither -A nor -R 
used, no core dumps occur across all 150.

Here is the version information on the program:
AUTHOR
   Originally written by Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
   digita.com>.

COPYRIGHT
   Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001 Free Software
   Foundation, Inc.

   Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim
   copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and
   this permission notice are preserved on all copies.

   Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify
   this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documenta­
   tion License, Version 1.1 or any later version published
   by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sec­
   tions being ``GNU General Public License'' and ``GNU Free
   Documentation License'', with no Front-Cover Texts, and
   with no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license is
   included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation
   License''.


I appreciate your time.  Please let me know if you need any further information.

Sincerely,
Shane Neph

Bug in wget 1.9.1 documentation

[Tristan Miller]

Greetings.

There appears to be a bug in the documentation (man page, etc.) for wget 
1.9.1.  Specifically, the section about the command-line option for 
proxies ends abruptly:

   -Y on/off
   --proxy=on/off
   Turn proxy support on or off.  The proxy is on by default if the
   appropriate environment variable is defined.

   For more information about the use of proxies with Wget,

   -Q quota
   --quota=quota
   Specify download quota for automatic retrievals.  The value can 
be
   specified in bytes (default), kilobytes (with k suffix), or
   megabytes (with m suffix).

Regards,
Tristan

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timeout

[Norman H. Azadian]

I was wrong to say that the timeout does not work.  The problem is that the 
-O option does not set the number of retries to 1 as the manpage claims. 
If you then run with -q, it looks like the timeout is simply not working.

NHA
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timeouts broken

[Norman H. Azadian]

The timeouts appear to be completely inoperable.
NHA
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