Consider this example, which happens to be how I realised this problem:
wget http://www.mxpx.com/ -r --base=. Here, I want the entire site to be downloaded with each link pointing to the local file. This works for some links, but it does not take references to the root directory into account, such as this: <a href="/index.php">Home</a> Here, wget just ignores the --base parameter and leaves the link as "/index.php". I realise that this may seem like a sticky situation, but consider this solution: Let's say that I have a photo album on my personal homepage with the following directory scheme: / /photos/ /photos/hawaii /photos/concerts In /photos/concerts/index.html, I have a link to "/index.html". When wget parses the html, it could then become: "../../index.html". All we need to know is how many directories deep we are. Would this be an acceptable solution? If so, I'd be glad to write a patch.
