Quite the opposite at that time, "wait" was used for retries and between
normal connections, so a high wait time (avoid hammering) meant slow
downloads even for working connections.
So the idea at that time was having a possibility of wait 0 (between normal
connections) and waitretry 0..x (used between retries, in order to avoid
hammering).
If I remember correctly you should be able to set explicitely wait to some
value and waitretry to 0, in that case it should use the wait time only (but
I can't test that just now, so do check that).
Hmm the code says:
if (opt.waitretry && count > 1)
<wait count, max out at opt.waitretry>
else if (opt.wait)
<wait opt.wait>
so I think that's correct (but still, test that as I didn't right now).
Now, if you want a fixed time for wait between normal downloads and another
fixed time between retries.. that is not available currently, but probably
trivial to add - just look for "wait" in options.h, main.c, init.c, retr.c
in order to change what you need.
Heiko
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wu-Kung Sun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 11:13 PM
> To: Aaron S. Hawley
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Feature Request: Fixed wait
>
>
> --- "Aaron S. Hawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > how is your request different than --wait ?
> >
>
> I'm not in position to verify right now and it's been
> a while since I really knew the ins and outs of wget.
> But IIRC, --wait is only the time between getting
> files and not the time between initial connection
> attempts (and maybe time between broken connections?).
> Hence, --waitretry was added.
>
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