Re: [bug #20329] Make HTTP timestamping use If-Modified-Since

2008-09-02 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yes, that's what it means. I'm not yet committed to doing this. I'd like to see first how many mainstream servers will respect If-Modified-Since when given as part of an HTTP/1.0 request (in comparison to how they respond when it's part of an

Re: [bug #20329] Make HTTP timestamping use If-Modified-Since

2008-09-01 Thread vinothkumar raman
This mean we should remove the previous HEAD request code and use If-Modified-Since by default and have it to handle all the request and store pages if it is not returning a 304 response Is it so? On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Follow-up Comment #4, bug

timestamping and output document

2007-06-26 Thread purp
Don't know if that's a known issue, but if I want to use timestamping (-N) and --output-document at the same time, the file is downloaded everytime. So it seems like size and time of output-document don't get used for reference. Which is a pity. This is GNU Wget 1.9.1.

Re: timestamping and output document

2007-06-26 Thread Steven M. Schweda
From: purp Don't know if that's a known issue, [...] Try the Search feature at: http://www.mail-archive.com/wget@sunsite.dk/ For example: http://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=%22-O%22+%22-N%22[EMAIL PROTECTED] where you can see several previous similar complaints, and the

Re: timestamping and output document

2007-06-26 Thread Steven M. Schweda
For the record: http://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=%22-O%22+%22-N%22[EMAIL PROTECTED] was actually more like: http://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=%22-O%22+%22-N%22l= wget at sunsite.dk before it got PROTECTED. SMS.

Re: timestamping not working when -O option is in path/filename format

2007-04-26 Thread n g
thanks to sourceforge, here is a url from soruceforge net, http://images.sourceforge.net/icons/silk/feed.png has a Last-Modified header of 'Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:10:40 GMT' consider these two command: 1, wget -N -O dir/feed.png \ http://images.sourceforge.net/icons/silk/feed.png wget

Re: timestamping not working when -O option is in path/filename format

2007-04-23 Thread n g
On 4/23/07, Tony Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: n g wrote: wget url -O dir/name -N would download the same file every run. while wget url -O name -N works as expected. timestamping compares the timestamp on the local file with the timestamp on the server. When you use -O

Re: timestamping not working when -O option is in path/filename format

2007-04-23 Thread n g
On 4/23/07, Steven M. Schweda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: n g another problem about -N option: No, it's the same problem with the -O option, which does not work the way you seem to think that it works. If you go to i guess you are right. its all about `-O' option.

timestamping not working when -O option is in path/filename format

2007-04-22 Thread n g
wget url -O dir/name -N would download the same file every run. while wget url -O name -N works as expected. wget version=1.10.2

Timestamping but ignore files older than?

2007-02-23 Thread Glenn De Moor
Hello, I'm using wget 1.10.2 on windows to mirror an ftp directory. essentially one line: wget --timestamping ftp://ftp.com/pub/updates/* -o ..\Update.log an local application then scans through the resulting files for valid updates. As the update directory has grown over the years

Wget timestamping is flawed across timezones

2006-12-21 Thread Remko Scharroo
Dear wget developers. I'm sure this has been reported before, and I've seen references to it going back all the way to 2003 but the problem I'm facing is still there in wget version 1.10.2. When I turn on --timestamping I suspect, as the manual says, that the time tags are preserved

Re: Wget timestamping is flawed across timezones

2006-12-21 Thread Steven M. Schweda
From: Remko Scharroo: Can this be fixed? Of course it can be fixed, but someone will need to fix it, which would involve defining the user interface and adding the code to do the actual time offset. I assume that the user will need to specify the offset. For an indication of what could

wget 1.11 alpha1 - bug with timestamping option

2006-06-17 Thread Jochen Roderburg
Hi, I have tried out the wget alpha under Linux and found that the timestamping option (which I usually have defined) does not work correctly. First thing I saw, that on *every* download I got a line Remote file is newer, retrieving. in the output, even when there was no local file

timestamping feature with different output file name

2006-02-16 Thread Martin Kos
hi is there a way to use the timestamping future but to force wget to output the file to another filename? if i use only timestamping everything works fine, but if i use another output document (--output-document) it ignores the timestamps? i used GNU Wget 1.9.1 from debian sarge. greets

Re: timestamping feature with different output file name

2006-02-16 Thread Martin Kos
i've just found this [1] open debian bug report. it's open since 26 Jul 2003 and still not corrected in the recent version of wget :-( greets KoS [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=202911 -- Martin Kos +41-76-384-93-33 http://kos.li

BUG: timestamping and output file do not work together

2006-02-16 Thread Martin Kos
hi i've just posted my comments on the mailinglist [1]. wget doesn't behave the right way if i use the out --output-document option and --timestamping together. wget tries to compare the url-file with the original file instead with the --output-document file. why i got to this problem

Re: timestamping feature with different output file name

2006-02-16 Thread Steven M. Schweda
I'm curious. Currently, -O may be used with multiple URLs on the command line. What would be the right way for this to work with -N? Steven M. Schweda (+1) 651-699-9818 382 South Warwick Street

Re: Timestamping vs output file

2005-11-21 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
Jorge Pereira wrote: Hi, When using wget with -N and -O, the comparison is not done to the file specified with -O, it is done to whatever filename the server replies with (and it doesn't exist, because it's being written under a different name, so no time comparison is done). I searched

Timestamping vs output file

2005-11-16 Thread Jorge Pereira
Hi, When using wget with -N and -O, the comparison is not done to the file specified with -O, it is done to whatever filename the server replies with (and it doesn't exist, because it's being written under a different name, so no time comparison is done). I searched around and can't seem to

--timestamping and big files?

2005-05-28 Thread Dan Bolser
I think --timestamping fails for files 2Gb wget tries to download the file again with the .1 extension (as if you were not using --timestamping). This only happens to a big file in a list of files I am wgetting.

Re: --timestamping and big files?

2005-05-28 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Dan Bolser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think --timestamping fails for files 2Gb Thanks for the report. Wget 1.9.x doesn't support 2+GB files, not only for timestamping. You can try Wget 1.10-beta from ftp://ftp.deepspace6.net/pub/ds6/sources/wget/wget-1.10-beta1.tar.bz2

Re: --timestamping and big files?

2005-05-28 Thread Dan Bolser
On Sat, 28 May 2005, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: Dan Bolser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think --timestamping fails for files 2Gb Thanks for the report. Wget 1.9.x doesn't support 2+GB files, not only for timestamping. You can try Wget 1.10-beta from ftp://ftp.deepspace6.net/pub/ds6/sources/wget

Wget - file length issue with FTP timestamping

2005-03-11 Thread Dave Mtl
Hello, I recently installed wget 1.9.1 on Windows 2000 and I have been experimenting with it. Mostly, it works very well. Many thanks to the authors! But I did find a problem with the -N option (timestamping) when mirroring an FTP site that uses the MUSIC/SP ftp server. Wget uses the info from

Re: --timestamping underdocumented

2004-11-16 Thread Greg Hurrell
equivalent to -r -N -l inf -nr. Isn't --timestamping missing in this equivalence list? ... Oh, I see, -N is --timestamping. Grr, I belive it should be mentioned in words here for clarity. You yourself quoted that part of the manual which mentions it in words: This option turns on recursion

-O and timestamping

2004-09-22 Thread Karel Rys
I try update a file with following command: *** wget -N --proxy=off --cache=off http://172.17.8.14/etrust/vet.dat -O c:\temp\kkk\xx.dat --11:17:01-- http://172.17.8.14/etrust/vet.dat = `c:/temp/kkk/xx.dat' Connecting to 172.17.8.14:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting

Bad interaction of --timestamping, --retr-symlinks and symlinks

2004-08-06 Thread Simon Josefsson
Hello. When using '--timestamping --retr-symlinks', the time stamping logic seem to compare the date of the symbolic link with the local copy of the file. But wget will download the real file, and set the local date to the same as the real file. So if the symbolic link, on the server, has

Re: wget and timestamping

2004-03-19 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Rick Goyette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The local and remote files have different sizes, which I thought (after reading the man page) should flag wget to grab it. But it does not. It should. Do you use HTTP or FTP to get the file? Can you post a debug log (possibly edited for confidential

wget and timestamping

2004-03-15 Thread Rick Goyette
that, and the modification date, which is updated whenever the file is modified. When I use wget with timestamping (wget -N) and poll the VMS system for a file, the date returned seems to be the creation date, not the modification date. A user sets up a run file on Monday afternoon, which

Question about timestamping

2004-02-24 Thread Tsabros Leonidas
I've been using wget for the last time in order to retrieve mirrors of some web sites. Recently i discovered the -N option. When i use it checks if the local files are older than the server files (same filenames) and if the last one is newer than the local file then it overwrites the local one

Re: Question about timestamping

2004-02-24 Thread OTR Comm
Hello, Tsabros Leonidas wrote: I've been using wget for the last time in order to retrieve mirrors of some web sites. Recently i discovered the -N option. When i use it checks if the local files are older than the server files (same filenames) and if the last one is newer than the local

RE: Question about timestamping

2004-02-24 Thread Craig Sowadski
Yes, I beleive the option you are looking for is --backup-converted or to make thing easier -K (make sure it is capital) is an alias for the same thing. Craig Sowadski _ Dream of owning a home? Find out how in the First-time Home

Wget 1.8.2 timestamping bug

2003-08-10 Thread Angelo Archie Amoruso
Hi All, I'm using Wget 1.8.2 on a Redhat 9.0 box equipped with Athlon 550 MHz cpu, 128 MB Ram. I've encountered a strange issue, which seem really a bug, using the timestamping option. I'm trying to retrieve the http://www.nic.it/index.html page. The HEAD HTTP method returns that page is 2474

RE: Wget 1.8.2 timestamping bug

2003-08-06 Thread Post, Mark K
1.8.2 timestamping bug Hi All, I'm using Wget 1.8.2 on a Redhat 9.0 box equipped with Athlon 550 MHz cpu, 128 MB Ram. I've encountered a strange issue, which seem really a bug, using the timestamping option. I'm trying to retrieve the http://www.nic.it/index.html page. The HEAD HTTP method

Bug? Timestamping directories in --recursive wget does not work?

2002-12-11 Thread Kalin KOZHUHAROV
Hi all! I am not 100% sure why this is so, but it is reproducable on my several linux systems. So: 1. Create a new directory and cd to it (mkdir /tmp/mydir /tmp/mydir) 2. Run wget with an ftp site to get a dir (wget --recursive ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/xinfo*) for example 3. See the time of

Re: timestamping ( another suggestion)

2002-04-16 Thread Brix Lichtenberg
DCA This isn't a bug, but the offer of a new feature. The timestamping DCA feature doesn't quite work for us, as we don't keep just the latest DCA view of a website and we don't want to copy all those files around for DCA each update. Which brings me to mention two features I've been meaning

Re[2]: timestamping ( another suggestion)

2002-04-16 Thread Brix Lichtenberg
The other thing more or less is ripped from the Windows DL-Manager FlashGet (but why not). Wouldn't it be useful if wget retrieves a file to a temporary renamed filename, for instance with the extension .wg! or something and renamed back to the original name after finishing? Two TL advantages

timestamping

2002-04-15 Thread David C. Anderson
This isn't a bug, but the offer of a new feature. The timestamping feature doesn't quite work for us, as we don't keep just the latest view of a website and we don't want to copy all those files around for each update. So I implemented a --changed-since=mmdd[hhmm] flag to only get files

Re: Debian bug 88176 - timestamping is wrong with -O

2002-04-10 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Unfortunately, this bug is not easy to fix. The problem is that `-O' was originally invented for streaming, i.e. for `-O -'. As a result, many places in Wget's code assume that they can freely operate on the file names, and -O seems more like an afterthought. On the other hand, many people

Debian bug 88176 - timestamping is wrong with -O

2002-02-06 Thread Guillaume Morin
Hi, I am forwarding to you Debian bug 88176. (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=88176repeatmerged=yes) I can reproduce the problem with 1.8.1 The following transcript shows that the wget can do the Bad Thing with -O when timestamping. It can result on a 0 byte long result

HTTP/1.1 (was Re: timestamping content-length --ignore-length)

2002-02-01 Thread Ian Abbott
On 1 Feb 2002 at 8:17, Daniel Stenberg wrote: You may count this mail as advocating for HTTP 1.1 support, yes! ;-) I did write down some minimal requirements for HTTP/1.1 support on a scrap of paper recently. It's probably still buried under the more recent strata of crap on my desk somewhere!

Re: timestamping content-length --ignore-length

2002-02-01 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Ian Abbott wrote: The proper action (IMHO) would be to use a true HTTP/1.1 request and thus most likely receive a chunked transfer-encoded data stream back, Does PHP do that? PHP does that. With the help of Apache of course. Surely it wouldn't be much difference, as

timestamping content-length --ignore-length

2002-01-31 Thread Bruce BrackBill
Hi, If I understand timestamping corretly, wget will look at the content-length header and if the length is different than the local copy , wget will reget the web page even if the the remote file is older/same_as the local copy. The problem is, that my web pages are served up by php

Re: timestamping content-length --ignore-length

2002-01-31 Thread Ian Abbott
On 31 Jan 2002 at 8:41, Bruce BrackBill wrote: The problem is, that my web pages are served up by php and the content lengh is not defined. So as the manual states I use --ignore-length. But when wget retrieves an image it slows right down, possibly because it is ignoring the

Re: timestamping content-length --ignore-length

2002-01-31 Thread Bruce BrackBill
From: Ian Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Bruce BrackBill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: timestamping content-length --ignore-length Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:24:11 - On 31 Jan 2002 at 8:41, Bruce BrackBill wrote: The problem is, that my web pages are served up by php

Re: timestamping content-length --ignore-length

2002-01-31 Thread Ian Abbott
sending me a content_length i'm just going to download it again anyway :-). According the the manual ( as I read it ) wget should ALWAYS reget the file if it has an empty content length ( even though this is undesirable behavior ). Sorry I ignored the timestamping part of your question. My

Re: timestamping content-length --ignore-length

2002-01-31 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Ian Abbott wrote: The problem is, that my web pages are served up by php and the content lengh is not defined. So as the manual states I use --ignore-length. But when wget retrieves an image it slows right down, possibly because it is ignoring the content-length.

Re: Is wget --timestamping URL working on Windows 2000?

2001-12-12 Thread Ian Abbott
On 11 Dec 2001 at 18:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that if an output_document is specified, it is being clobbered at the very beginning (unless always_rest is true). Later in http_loop stat() comes up with zero length. Hence there's always a size mismatch when --output-document

Re: Is wget --timestamping URL working on Windows 2000?

2001-12-12 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But it's as documented in the man page. The option is meant for concatenating several pages into one big file, and you can't meaningfully compare timestamps or file sizes in that case. Ah, so this behaviour is by design. Even so, the behaviour is slightly

Re: Is wget --timestamping URL working on Windows 2000?

2001-12-12 Thread Adrian Aichner
Hrvoje == Hrvoje Niksic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hrvoje [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But it's as documented in the man page. The option is meant for concatenating several pages into one big file, and you can't meaningfully compare timestamps or file sizes in that case.

Re: Is wget --timestamping URL working on Windows 2000?

2001-12-11 Thread csaba . raduly
On 11/12/2001 14:03:54 Adrian Aichner wrote: Hi Wgeteers! Is -N, --timestamping don't retrieve files if older than local. supposed to work on windows 2000? [snip] cd c:\Hacking\SunSITE.dk\xemacsweb\Download\win32\ %TEMP%\wget.wip\src\wget.exe --debug --timestamping --output

wget timestamping (-N) bug/feature?

2001-08-04 Thread Bao, Jiangcheng
Suppose I have page a.html, which has a link to b.html. If a is not changed, and b is changed. When I process a, I have no way to check a so that I can process b too, without downloading a. -N will cause a not to be downloaded, but not processed either, so change of b will be ignored. If I will

Re: wget timestamping (-N) bug/feature?

2001-08-04 Thread Ian Abbott
On 4 Aug 2001, at 3:25, Bao, Jiangcheng wrote: Suppose I have page a.html, which has a link to b.html. If a is not changed, and b is changed. When I process a, I have no way to check a so that I can process b too, without downloading a. -N will cause a not to be downloaded, but not processed

Re: wget timestamping (-N) bug/feature?

2001-08-04 Thread Bao, Jiangcheng
, and thus missed the fact that some other pages being linked by index.html might have been changed. Am I right? Or I am wrong? Thanks. Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 17:15:45 +0100 From: Ian Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bao, Jiangcheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: wget timestamping

Re: wget timestamping (-N) bug/feature?

2001-08-04 Thread Mengmeng Zhang
Say, I have a index.html which is not changed, but some of the pages linked from this page might be changed. When I use -N option to retrieve index.html recursively, wget will quit after find out that index.html is not changed, without following the url in index.html, and thus missed the

Re: wget timestamping (-N) bug/feature?

2001-08-04 Thread David VanHorn
At 07:11 PM 8/4/01 -0500, Mengmeng Zhang wrote: Say, I have a index.html which is not changed, but some of the pages linked from this page might be changed. When I use -N option to retrieve index.html recursively, wget will quit after find out that index.html is not changed, without

Re: wget timestamping (-N) bug/feature?

2001-08-04 Thread Bao, Jiangcheng
: Re: wget timestamping (-N) bug/feature? At 07:11 PM 8/4/01 -0500, Mengmeng Zhang wrote: Say, I have a index.html which is not changed, but some of the pages linked from this page might be changed. When I use -N option to retrieve index.html recursively, wget will quit after find out