[bug] wget always spans hosts for https:// links

2003-05-31 Thread Toby Corkindale
I appear to have found a bug in wget 1.8.2, and I couldn't find any references to it via google. Is this a real bug? I have trouble believing it can't have been hit before; but on the other hand, I can't figure out any reason why it should be occuring to me. If I use wget -r http://myhost.com/;

Comment handling

2003-05-31 Thread George Prekas
I have found a bug in Wget version 1.8.2 concerning comment handling ( !-- comment -- ). Take a look at the following illegal HTML code: HTML BODY a href=test1.htmltest1.html/a !-- a href=test2.htmltest2.html/a !-- /BODY /HTML Now, save the above snippet as test.html and try wget -Fi test.html.

Re: Comment handling

2003-05-31 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
On Fri, 30 May 2003, George Prekas wrote: I have found a bug in Wget version 1.8.2 concerning comment handling ( !-- comment -- ). Take a look at the following illegal HTML code: HTML BODY a href=test1.htmltest1.html/a !-- a href=test2.htmltest2.html/a !-- /BODY /HTML Now, save the

preserving file extensions?

2003-05-31 Thread listbox_8811
Hi! I want to archive a webcam image every 5 minutes or so, and when I go: wget http//server/cam_1.jpg so it saves cam_1.jpg. The trouble is it saves the next time as cam_1.jpg.1 and cam_1.jpg.2 etc. Is there a switch that I can use for it to name it thusly: cam_1.jpg cam_11.jpg cam_12.jpg

Re: Comment handling

2003-05-31 Thread Tony Lewis
George Prekas wrote: I have found a bug in Wget version 1.8.2 concerning comment handling ( !-- comment -- ). Take a look at the following illegal HTML code: HTML BODY a href=test1.htmltest1.html/a !-- a href=test2.htmltest2.html/a !-- /BODY /HTML Now, save the above snippet as

Re: how to save the file in memory

2003-05-31 Thread Max Bowsher
niurui wrote: Hi, all I want to embed wget in my program. first my program will use wget to get a file from internet, then it will search this file for some words. So i want to save that file in memory rather than on hard disk. Can wget save the file in memory? how to? Wget is totally the

Compression

2003-05-31 Thread Antonio Gulli
hello, do wget support compression of downloaded files? This will we useful when you use -mirrot (or recursion) to preserve space. tony

Handling search scripts?

2003-05-31 Thread Fred Holmes
How can one handle the following, where the URL is a search script? The URL will load the base page into one's browser correctly, but when it is used as an argument for WGET, WGET tries to use it as an output filename, and the filename contains invalid characters for Windows. Wget 1.8.2 for