a patch was submitted: http://www.mail-archive.com/wget%40sunsite.dk/msg04645.html
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Keith Thompson wrote: > 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. > > -- __________________________________________ PINE 4.53 Mailer - www.washington.edu/pine
