I am using "GNU Wget 1.9.1" on OS/2 (wget191-os2-bin-vac).
I am trying to download a comic strip image and I get the surrounding
HTML page plus the HTML pages for prior days but I don't get the images.
Here is the site:
http://www.ucomics.com/broomhilda/
Here is the command I am using:
w
Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
I'd prefer a change that tried to use -a by default and fell back to
what we use now if that fails. Even better would be looking into
recent FTP server features, in the vein of SIZE and MDTM -- there has
to be something.
This would also be okay for my purposes. When I fi
"Carl G. Ponder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This would also be okay for my purposes. When I first ran "wget" I
> was assuming it would get everything, and was surprised and
> disappointed when it didn't. Would you be able to make a
> modification like this any time soon?
I wouldn't count on it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steven M. Schweda) writes:
>> [...] I for one would prefer Wget to be smarter and try to download
>> dot files by default, without the user's intervention.
>
>Given the variability in FTP servers (even among UNIX FTP servers) I
> don't see how this could be done reliably.
I
Hrvoje Niksic:
> But that's the catch, it really doesn't ignore anything, it's just
> that the server isn't listing them. [...]
Exactly. For example, my ISP seems to be using an FTP server from
Sun on its Solaris system, and it lists everything with no extra effort:
alp $ ftp
FTP> debug
"Carl G. Ponder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
>> If nothing else works out, we can add something like that. I for one
>> would prefer Wget to be smarter and try to download dot files by
>> default, without the user's intervention.
>
> Remember, though, that if a new version
Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
If nothing else works out, we can add something like that. I for one
would prefer Wget to be smarter and try to download dot files by
default, without the user's intervention.
Remember, though, that if a new version of "wget" starts downloading the
"." files, while all th
Carl Ponder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How about this, then document "wget" as follows:
>
> By default, for wildcard and recursive operations, "wget"
> *ignores* invisible files (like ".profile", ".rhosts", etc.)
> that begin with '.'.
But that's the catch, it really doe
