I think it would be safe to call this a bug, but I seem to think I've seen something about this before.
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, gang wu wrote: > Thanks for your reply. Should we report this as a bug? > > Gang > > > Ray Rodriguez wrote: > > >I tried the command on SCO Unix 5.0.4 with wget 1.10.2 and had the same > >result as you. > > > >On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, gang wu wrote: > > > > > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>Can anyone try the following line several times to see if it downloads > >>the file every time? > >> > >>wget -N > >>ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genomes/Arabidopsis_thaliana/CHR_V/NC_003076.gbk > >> > >>With the -N option, should wget download the remote file only once if > >>the remote and local files have the same timestamp and file size? I saw > >>the command downloaded the file every time with a message that says the > >>file sizes do not match. I'm using version 1.10 with Redhat Enterprise > >>v4. Did I do something wrong? > >> > >>For smaller files it seems working properly. > >> > >>Any suggestion is appreciated. > >> > >>Gang > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > >
