Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
hi everyone !
i'm trying to set up a website monitoring tool for a university research
project. the idea is to use wget to archive politician's websites once a
week to analyse their campaigns in the last 4 weeks before the election.
i have hit a few snags, and i would welcome comments.
my wget is a binary release that was shipped with suse linux 9.2 ("GNU
Wget 1.9+cvs-dev"), architecture is i386.
i just confirmed all three issues with latest cvs.
[1]
wget spans hosts when it shouldn't:
[2]
wget seems to choke on directories that start with a dot. i guess it
thinks they are references to external pages and does not download links
containing such directory names.
[3]
wget does not parse css stylesheets and consequently does not retrieve
url() references, which leads to missing background graphics on some sites.
ps: please retain the cc: list. thanks.
regards,
jörn