-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Steven M. Schweda wrote: > From: Josh Williams > >> As far as I can tell, there's nothing in the man page about it. > > It's pretty well hidden. > > -e robots=off > > At this point, I normally just grind my teeth instead of complaining > about the differences between the command-line options and the commands > in the ".wgetrc" start-up file.
The man page, AFAICT, doesn't list any of the rc commands, or anything much at all abou the rc file. This should probably be remedied, as this information is important enough, and people often are in the habit of typing "man wget" instead of "info wget", to say nothing of those distributions which might distribute the info manual in a separate package, due to, say, DFSG issues (which are resolved at the moment in the trunk). The manpage doesn't need to give as detailed explanations as the info manual (though, as it's auto-generated from the info manual, this could be hard to avoid); but it should fully describe essential features. While we're on the subject: should we explicitly warn about using such features as robots=off, and --user-agent? And what should those warnings be? Something like, "Use of this feature may help you download files from which wget would otherwise be blocked, but it's kind of sneaky, and web site administrators may get upset and block your IP address if they discover you using it"? - -- 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 iD8DBQFGnllo7M8hyUobTrERCL9FAJ9+PucAr/feeyObcOJMn9HZLk+xRACeNnB/ YfLYyzpHQHqkCGPTPbJih5M= =SaZw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
