Keith Moore wrote:
I ran into a situation today in which I needed to disable HTTP
redirection processing (3xx status codes). A little digging in
the WGET sources revealed a hard-coded limit of 20 redirection
"hops" before giving up. The attached patch makes this value
configurable via the command line (--max-redirections=NUMBER)
or via wgetrc (max_redirections=NUMBER). Setting this value
to 0 disables redirections.
The default is still 20, so default behavior has not changed.
Please consider for inclusion, if you feel this might be useful.
hi keith,
i have discussed your patch with hrvoje. we both agree that a
--max-redirections option would be too low-level for Wget, and that the
best solution to your problem would be to add a --no-redirections switch
instead.
would you like to modify your patch to implement --no-redirections
instead of --max-redirections? i would surely include it in the next
wget release.
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