Our firewall group just changed the proxy they use for ftp. As a result, a problem with wget 1.8.2 surfaced. When I issue this command: wget -N ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/ChangeLog.txt the results I get depend on whether ChangeLog.txt exists in the current working directory or not. If the file _does_ exist, I get a 404 error. If it does _not_ exist, the file is retrieved. I re-ran both of the commands with --debug, and the difference seems to be that if the file exists, wget is issuing a "HEAD" command for the file, which fails. If it does not exist, it issues a "GET" command, which works. Is this a problem with wget, or my FTP proxy server?
Mark Post $ wget -N ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/ChangeLog.txt --debug DEBUG output created by Wget 1.8.2 on linux-gnu. --17:40:45-- ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/ChangeLog.txt => `ChangeLog.txt' Connecting to 192.85.50.83:81... connected. Created socket 3. Releasing 0x807f488 (new refcount 0). Deleting unused 0x807f488. ---request begin--- GET ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/ChangeLog.txt HTTP/1.0 User-Agent: Wget/1.8.2 Host: ftp.slackware.com Accept: */* Proxy-Authorization: Basic cnp0c2drOnAxbWFpbnRo ---request end--- Proxy request sent, awaiting response... HTTP/1.0 200 OK Mime-Version: 1.0 Server: Application and Content Networking System Software 4.2.9 Content-Type: text/plain Last-Modified: Tue Jun 17 19:42:07 2003 X-protocol: ftp Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 21:40:48 GMT Connection: Close Length: unspecified [text/plain] [ <=> ] 102,285 7.22K/s Closing fd 3 17:41:02 (7.22 KB/s) - `ChangeLog.txt' saved [102285] $ wget -N ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/ChangeLog.txt --debug DEBUG output created by Wget 1.8.2 on linux-gnu. --17:41:08-- ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/ChangeLog.txt => `ChangeLog.txt' Connecting to 192.85.50.83:81... connected. Created socket 3. Releasing 0x807f488 (new refcount 0). Deleting unused 0x807f488. ---request begin--- HEAD ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/ChangeLog.txt HTTP/1.0 User-Agent: Wget/1.8.2 Host: ftp.slackware.com Accept: */* Proxy-Authorization: Basic cnp0c2drOnAxbWFpbnRo ---request end--- Proxy request sent, awaiting response... HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found Proxy-Connection: Close Closing fd 3 17:41:11 ERROR 404: Not Found.
