On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, dEth wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I'm using wget to check if some files are downloadable, I also use to > determine the size of the file. Yesterday I noticed that wget > ignores --spider option for ftp addresses. > It had to show me the filesize and other parameters, but it began to > download the file :( That's too bad. Can anyone fix it? My only idea > was to shorten the time of work using supported options, so that the > downloading would be aborted. That's a user's solution, now a > programmer's one is needed.
http://www.google.com/search?q=wget+spider+ftp > The other problem is that wget dowesn't correctly replace hrefs in > downloaded pages (it uses hostname of the local machine to replace > remote hostname and there's no feature to give any other base-url the > -B option is for another purpose.) If anyone is interested, I can > describe the problem more detailed. If it won't be fixed, I'll write > a perl script to replace base urls after wget downloads pages I need, > but that's not the best way). would this option help?: GNU Wget 1.8.1, a non-interactive network retriever. Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]... .. -k, --convert-links convert non-relative links to relative. ..
