When invoked with an "ftp://"; URL, wget's the "--spider" option is
silently ignored and the file is downloaded. This applies to wget
version 1.8.2.
To demonstrate:
wget --spider http://www.gnu.org/index.html
# doesn't grab the file
wget --spider ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.8.2.tar.gz
# grabs the file
Ideally, it should work. At least, it should complain.
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Keith Thompson, San Diego Supercomputer Center
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