It would be nice if wget had the option to NOT CWD before downloading an FTP file. I'm dealing with a very slow server that keeps a number of files in a directory which is not +rx. Of course, this means that wget attempts to CWD to the directory in which I know the files are stored (I have full URLs, dontchaknow) it fails and croaks. In fact, it goes so far as to report 'No such directory' when I know the dir is there. I can fetch the files with ftp.
This isn't especially great.
Or maybe I'm missing something. Is there a way to make wget cut it out with this errant behavior?
# Stomp
