"FM" == Frank McCown writes: DV> URL ../directory/file.html placed in DV> http://some-host.com/index.html is illegal because no parent DV> directory for /index.html exists.
>> it is "legal". it works everywhere else. that's why i ask to >> normalize the URL properly. FM> The URL is "legal" if the web server doesn't complain (I'm FM> betting its IIS?) and returns /directory/file.html properly, E.g., Apache 2.0 does complain on requests like "GET /../dir/file.html HTTP/1.0" with "HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request" so wget will not work properly at all. FM> but it's still not technically proper to try to access a file FM> above the root web directory. Indeed. All browsers do not even try to go "beyond root". Wget should be fixed, too. FM> I addressed this "bug" in wget few months ago. See the fix here: FM> http://www.mail-archive.com/wget@sunsite.dk/msg08516.html Thanks. I hope that wget developers will issue a new release soon, with this fix. Best, v.
