Hi Jason!
If I understood you correctly, this quote from the manual should help you:
***
Note that these two options [accept and reject based on filenames] do not
affect the downloading of HTML files; Wget must load all the HTMLs to know
where to go at all--recursive retrieval would make no sense otherwise.
***
If you are seeing wget behaviour different from this, please a) update your
wget and b) provide more details where/how it happens.
CU good luck!
Jens (just another user)
When the -R option is specified to reject files by name in recursive mode,
wget downloads them anyway then deletes them after downloading. This is a
problem when you are trying to be picky about the files you are
downloading
to save bandwidth. Since wget appears to know the name of the file it is
downloading before it is downloaded (even if the specified URL is
redirected
to a different filename), then it should not bother downloading the file
at all if it is going to delete it immediately after downloading it.
- Jason Cipriani
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