I was using --retry-connrefused and --retry-on-host-error, however
wget still exited on network issues with the above message.
I'm wget'ing via a rather unstable route so I need wget to retry on
these network issues but it didn't.
(Well, I can retry the whole command outside wget, but isn't it ni
curl has the --head option. Is there a reason why wget doesn't have it?
-I, --head
(HTTP FTP FILE) Fetch the headers only! HTTP-servers
feature the command HEAD which this uses to get nothing but the header
of a document. When used on an
FTP or FILE file, curl
That is precisely what the `--spider` option does. It sends a HEAD request.
Just like the similarly named option in Curl.
If you want it to be more explicit, you can use `--method=HEAD` instead. It
will still do the same thing though.
* Peng Yu [190812 20:56]:
> curl has the --head option. Is the