Re: [Bug-wget] wget without http

2011-06-29 Thread William Tracy
Not to start an argument, but when you are discussing Free Software, please capitalize Free to distinguish it from software that doesn't cost money. It's confusing enough already. Also, since Erwin is running on Windows, I doubt that he is that concerned about using strictly Free Software. Willi

Re: [Bug-wget] wget without http

2011-06-29 Thread Micah Cowan
(06/29/2011 04:42 AM), David H. Lipman wrote: > From: "Giuseppe Scrivano" >> though these tools have two problems, first of all they are not free. > > RoboCopy is free and was even included in the NT Resource Kit. (By "free", Giuseppe was of course speaking of freedom ("free software" or "softw

Re: [Bug-wget] wget without http

2011-06-29 Thread David H. Lipman
From: "Giuseppe Scrivano" > "David H. Lipman" writes: > >> If you are using Mapped Drives, there is NO NEED to use WGET as there are >> plenty of OS >> utilities from XXCOPY to RoboCopy. > > though these tools have two problems, first of all they are not free. > Second, as already reported, the

Re: [Bug-wget] wget without http

2011-06-29 Thread Giuseppe Scrivano
"David H. Lipman" writes: > If you are using Mapped Drives, there is NO NEED to use WGET as there are > plenty of OS > utilities from XXCOPY to RoboCopy. though these tools have two problems, first of all they are not free. Second, as already reported, they don't follow HTML links. It could b

Re: [Bug-wget] wget without http

2011-06-28 Thread David H. Lipman
From: "Erwin Panen" > Hi, > > I'm looking for a solution to create a mirror from a networked drive > containing some course ware. > We only have http access. We access using a browser like this: > file:///G:/your%20education/coursedir/indexpage.htm > > As far as I know wget will only accept http:

Re: [Bug-wget] wget without http

2011-06-27 Thread William Tracy
This sounds like a drive made available over SMB, which wget doesn't support. There exists an 'smbget' utility distributed with Samba. It doesn't seem to be available for Windows, and even if it were it doesn't look like it understands how to follow HTML links. It seems like it would be trivial e

[Bug-wget] wget without http

2011-06-27 Thread Erwin Panen
Hi, I'm looking for a solution to create a mirror from a networked drive containing some course ware. We only have http access. We access using a browser like this: file:///G:/your%20education/coursedir/indexpage.htm As far as I know wget will only accept http://adres Is there any way to make it