Re: Excluded hosts ignored when wget'ing from google search results

2006-11-22 Thread L Walsh
Ed wrote: The search goes OK but there are lots of errors like this: Cannot resolve incomplete link /advanced_search?q=platypus+mac&hl=en&hs=jzi&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=o rg.mozilla:en-US:official is it being confused by the '?' perhaps? is there a way of excluding such URLs?. All of these er

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-11-01 Thread L Walsh
Honest -- I hadn't read all the threads before my post... Great ideas Micah! :-) On the idea of 2 wgets -- there is a "clever" way to get by with 1. Put the "optional" functionality into separate run-time loadable files. SGI's Unix (and MS Windows) do this. The "small wget" then checks to see

RFE: run-time change of limit-rate & multi-stream download

2007-11-01 Thread L Walsh
Don't know if anyone else has this problem, but sometimes when I'm downloading large files (>500MB; most recently 4.2GB), I want to change the limit-rate without terminating the download and restarting. For example, during the "day" when I'm on my computer, I might not want it to use more than ~1

Re: Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0 (*LONG!*)

2007-11-02 Thread L Walsh
Micah Cowan wrote: I'm not sure what you mean about the linux thing; there are many instances of runtime loadable modules on Linux. dlopen() and friends are the standard way of doing this on any Unix kernel flavor. I _thought_ so, but when I asked a distro why they didn't use this

Re: RFE: run-time change of limit-rate & multi-stream download

2007-11-02 Thread L Walsh
Micah Cowan wrote: An interesting idea that Tony Lewis came up with was the ability to send Wget an interrupt (Ctrl-C), bringing up an interactive mode that allows one to modify configuration on-the-fly. He told me about it in response to an issue report I filed suggesting that Wget allow users

Re: wget through proxy is slow (Connection:Keep-Alive ignored?)

2008-01-07 Thread L Walsh
Yazeed Hamid wrote: I'm using wget version 1.10.2 on cygwin running on Windows Vista (v 6.0.6000 Build 6000). When there is a proxy to go through, the corresponsent proxy address:port is exported to the environment (export http_proxy=$proxy") The problem is, when wget is working through a prox