Matthias Jim Knopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > there is a bug (or a feature...) in the version 1.5.3
Note that the latest version of Wget is 1.8.1. I suggest you to upgrade because the new version handles URLs much better. > I discovered that every doubled slash (//) is converted to a single > slash (/) which might make sense for real file-paths, but which does > not allow me to retrieve an url like This bug still exists in the latest version, but I plan to fix it before the next release. > http://my.server/some/file?get_url=http://foo.bar/ > ^^ will be > converted to http:/foo.bar which is not a valid url > > this also does not work if the value for 'get_url' is url-encoded > as it should be. 1.8.1 handles this correctly when quoted. For example: $ wget -d 'http://fly.srk.fer.hr/?foo=http%2f%2fbar/baz' DEBUG output created by Wget 1.8.1 on linux-gnu. [...] ---request begin--- GET /?foo=http%2f%2fbar/baz HTTP/1.0
