dan jacobson recently reported a bug with --spider and -r:
http://www.mail-archive.com/wget@sunsite.dk/msg08797.html
hrvoje confirms this bug has been in wget for a long time, mainly
because the semantics of --spider and -r were never properly defined.
from my point of view, it makes sense that when a user specifies both
--spider and -r, wget:
1) downloads resources according to -r, printing an error (with non
exisiting url & referer) in case of non existing URLs
2) parses downloaded resources for url
3) deletes downloaded resources
do you think this is the correct semantics for --spider and -r? am i
missing something here?
(notice that there are significant similarities with the behaviour of -r
and --delete-after, with the only exception of printing errors in case
of non existing URLs.)
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