On Don, 25 Apr 2002, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
Hello,
> Judging by the provided `strace' output, it seems that your problem is
> caused by the network or perhaps even by the remote server. Wget
> sleeps on `select', waiting for the connection to close. That should
> not happen -- if the connection is not persistent (which in this case
> it isn't), it should close immediately after the data is received.
There is/was no problem with wget. Here is the solution/answer
from the bug reporter
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This bug is to do with `transparent' web proxying in our College (Abstract livesdown
the hall from me).
I've suffered the same problem before from certain sites.
It is fixed by setting the http_proxy environment variable or with the
--no-http-keep-alive option.
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Thanks for your help!
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Nočl Köthe
