Greetings.
I read many emails in different archives on the net regarding my isssue, but never found a solution to my problem. Here is the description: I am trying to mirror an ftp site though and http proxy. I have the following setting on both my RH machine running wget 1.8.2 and Solaris machine running wget 1.5.3 (actual /etc/wgetrc file is the same on both machine and I do not have ~/.wgetrc on any of the machines): http_proxy = http://proxy.hostname.com:80/ ftp_proxy = http://proxy.hostname.com:80/ use_proxy = on Ok, proxy.hostname.com is not the real URL I use, but believe me that the one I am using is the right one. The port numbers are valid and only port 80 is opened, thus both http and ftp request most go through port 80. Now, when I run say: wget --mirror -np --cut-dirs=2 ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists/ On my RH machine running wget 1.8.2, only the index.html file is downloaded. On my Solaris machine running wget 1.5.3, all the files under pub/wordlists get downloaded. Anybody got a clue what the problem is? Is it that wget 1.8.2 is more compliant to a standard and my proxy is bogus and I am just lucky it works with version 1.5.3? Is there a configuartion parameter missing in my /etc/wgetrc? Or is it a known problem with version 1.8.2? I am a newbie with wget, so the mistake is probably on my side, but I cannot figure what it is. Regards, Hans Deragon
