Feature Request: Wget accepting 404 messages

2004-06-21 Thread CJ Kucera
Hello, list! wget's default behavior upon encountering a 404 message is to error out and simply not fetch that page. It would be useful to have a flag which, when specified would actually download the 404 message given to wget, rather than just failing out. I imagine that the flag could

Website Login

2002-03-25 Thread CJ Kucera
Hello, list! I'd like to automate a download that has to happen a number of times a week, and wget seems to be the best candidate for the job. Unfortunately, the website requires a login to get at the file I'm interested in, and once you're logged in, the site sets a number of cookies. When I

Re: Website Login

2002-03-25 Thread CJ Kucera
I'd like to automate a download that has to happen a number of times a week, and wget seems to be the best candidate for the job. ... I neglected to mention that I'm running wget 1.8.1, sorry! -CJ -- WOW: Nyctitropic | Let us rain some DOOM upon the filthy heads

Re: Website Login

2002-03-25 Thread CJ Kucera
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 12:00:33PM -0500, Alan Eldridge wrote: Have you considered that it doesn't need just cookies? Sometimes webmasters get kindof assholish and require a specific referer page, too. Try setting referer on the command line. Ah, hadn't thought of that . . . As it turns out

Re: Website Login

2002-03-25 Thread CJ Kucera
I'd like to automate a download that has to happen a number of times a week, and wget seems to be the best candidate for the job. Unfortunately, the website requires a login to get at the file I'm interested in, and once you're logged in, the site sets a number of ... Just as a followup,

Re: docs wget

2001-10-26 Thread CJ Kucera
promote your favorite browser. etc.I think many developers, when not restrained by need to sell the product, are fearful of being preceived as stupid if they make things too easy or clear. What is so hard as what why? when to use? Recommendations? examples?? I don't know if I'd say

Re: WGET multiple files?

2001-10-10 Thread CJ Kucera
On Wed Oct 10 15:40:57 2001, Robin B. Lake wrote: How DOES Wget support HTTP cookies? I access a real-time stock quote I've never used them myself, but the manpage had this to say (v 1.7): --cookies=on/off When set to off, disable the use of cookies. Cookies are

Re: Mulitple-site question

2001-10-09 Thread CJ Kucera
On Thu Oct 4 04:55:53 2001, Ian Abbott wrote: On 3 Oct 2001, at 16:01, CJ Kucera wrote: The closest I've come is (and there's lots of extraneous stuff in there): wget -r -l inf -k -p --wait=1 -H --domains=theonion.com,graphics.theonion.com,www.theonion.com,theonionavclub.com

Mulitple-site question

2001-10-03 Thread CJ Kucera
Greetings, humans! I'd like to use wget to take a snapshot of www.theonion.com. On that site, all of the graphics are served from graphics.theonion.com, and there's a bunch of other sub-domains as well. Also, it links over to www.theonionavclub.com, which I would also like to mirror. How can I

Re: Mulitple-site question

2001-10-03 Thread CJ Kucera
I said: I'd like to use wget to take a snapshot of www.theonion.com. On that [snip!] I forgot to mention I'm using wget 1.7. Sorry 'bout that. -CJ WOW: Rapacious | A priest advised Voltaire on his death bed to apocalyptech.com/wow | renounce the devil. Replied Voltaire, This