There is currently no way to disable following redirects. A patch to
do so has been submitted recently, but I didn't see a good reason why
one would need it, so I didn't add the option. Your mail is a good
argument, but I don't know how prevalent that behavior is.
What is it with servers that ca
hello bug-wget,
When I use wget to grab some page that does not exist,
the server usually return a location redirect to it's home page (instead of 404 error),
then the wget will follow this link, which cause an un-necessary HTTP request.
so my question is which option I should use