Hi all,
I'm new here, and intend to use wget under Windows, through cmd scripts (.bat).
I'm quite surprised to have nothing in the documentation about the wget return value.
How can the script know if the page it's trying to fetch is existent or not ?
If there is no significant return value, I
Gisle Vanem [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It doesn't seem the patches to support 2GB files works on
Windows. Wget hangs indefinitely at the end of transfer. E.g.
[...]
I seem to be unable to repeat this.
Does this happen with only with large files, or with all files on
large-file-enabled version
Seb_kramm,
Is it just 0-success/1-failure,
So far, for many cases it is just that.
How can the script know if the page it's trying to fetch is existent
or not ?
If wget retunred code 0, this means the page is downloaded, therefore,
it exists. :-) If it returned code 1, the page is not
Unfortunately, in some cases at least, wget return codes are nearly
meaningless. When trying to mirror an ftp site for example, the return
code appears to only indicate if the server could be contacted and has
nothing to do with the success of the requested operation.
The situation is probably
