-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Josh Williams wrote: > 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.
As I mentioned to Josh in IRC, the desired behavior is accomplished with the -k option. The --base option isn't meant to have any effect on the downloaded files or anything; it's intended to be the equivalent to the HTML <base/> element's href attribute; and I'd be very, very reluctant to change it away from that meaning. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGmTtG7M8hyUobTrERCO+OAJ4gLRhhHF/2QlaWkg9ILaq/K2aOgACZAdd6 kolQgo8dljpJrX5M+NWRo28= =A156 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
