Hi Colin! I am just another user and rarely use "timeout". I hope I am not causing more trouble than I'm solving.
> I'm attempting to use wget's --timeout flag to limit the time spent > downloading a file. However, wget seems to ignore this setting. For > example, if I set --timeout=2, the download should take at most 6 > seconds, because the dns, connect, and read timeouts are all 2 > seconds. However, it does not seem to obey any such limit. Maybe I am misinterpreting what you write, but it sounds as if you expect wget to stop downloading the file after these 6 seconds? I think that timeout refers to the time wget will try an action until it considers the trials a fail. E.g.: when after 2 seconds there is no DNS conection, wget will time out, if after 2 seconds during "get" there is no data transferred, it will time out. CU Jens -- +++ Sparen Sie mit GMX DSL +++ http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl AKTION für Wechsler: DSL-Tarife ab 3,99 EUR/Monat + Startguthaben
