Hello, When I try to combine the options -O and -N, timestamping is not used, but the file is downloaded all the time. Timestamping does however check the file that would be used without the -O option. Consider the following scenario:
$ wget http://example.com/index.html wget retrieves the file. Assume that after this, index.html changes. $ wget -N http://example.com/index.html -O example_index.html wget retrieves it correctly again, but does so after inspecting index.html Assume that after this, the index.html does not change. $wget -N http://example.com/index.html -O example_index.html wget will now again download index.html because it inspects the local index.html and not example_index.html! $wget -N http://example.com/index.html wget will now again correctly download index.html $wget -N http://example.com/index.html -O example_index.html And because index.html is now up-to-date wget will not re-download the page. Because this behaviour is unexpected and undocumented, I consider it a bug. -- Sincerely, Dennis Kaarsemaker
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