I am trying to download some images from mapquest. These have URL's with encoded characters. The URL I try to download with wget is extracted from a html page served by mapquest.
With the windows WGET (1.8.1b) the url text is passed unaltered to the web server. This works fine. With unix (tried with 1.7 on Linux and BSD) the already encoded characters like %24, %2A and %3B get turned in '$', '*' and ';'. Oppositely the ':' is now encoded on unix into %3A... (I do have the url in "quotes".) As a result the server gives an error. To be absolutely sure about this re-encoding I verified this by 'wgetting' from my apache server an looking in the logfile. Is there a way to disable this tampering with the URL text by wget 1.7? If it is related to 1.7 - 1.8 version difference, then I am in trouble. I want to run this on my ISP server over whose version I have no control. Unless I can find a 1.8 binary for "BSD/OS 4.0 Kernel #7: i386"... Joop
