"Story, Ian" wrote: > > I have been a very happy user of wget for a long time. However, today I > > noticed that some sites, that don't run on port 80, don't work well with > > wget. For instance, when I tell wget to go get http://www.yahoo.com, it > > automatically puts :80 at the end, like this: http://www.yahoo.com:80. > > That is fine, most of the time, but some sites won't like that, and in > > fact, will give a 404 error, or other errors. So, I consulted the > > documentation, but couldn't find a way around this...is there a > > fix/workaround/something in the manual that I didn't see or understand to > > get around this? I tried a few web searches, and didn't find much > > information... Which version of wget do you use? I guess the last version that had this proble was wget 1.5.3. Try 1.6 or 1.7 (but be warned that the compilation support of SSL in 1.7 is often not working properly yet). More information about wget may be found at http://sunsite.dk/wget/ -- jan
