> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthias Vill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 1:54 AM
> To: wget@sunsite.dk
> Subject: Re: -R and HTML files
>
> Micah Cowan schrieb:
> > Josh Williams wrote:
> >> On 8/22/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> What would be the appropriate behavior of -R then?
> >> I think the default option should be to download the html files to
> >> parse the links, but it should discard them afterwards if
> >> they do not match the acceptance list.
> >
> > Heh, that _is_ the current default. But I'm not convinced
> > that's what the naïve user is going to expect the default
> > to be. Especially since the manpage doesn't mention it, and
> > the info page only mentions it if you dig into the details
> > section.
> >
> > OTOH, it has a history, so choosing to change it is not a
> > small decision.
> >
>
> To me downloading of HTML-files which match rejection-patterns
> make no sense.
> Of course, there is this case, where you want "the whole
> site, but" lets say you don't want any of the pictures
> because they are to big.
In my case, there's a web site that contains a lot of text and
PDF files that I need to monitor so that I can process the new
or changed ones. The HTML pages merely reflect the directory
structure. I don't want them, but they have to be traversed to
get to the files I do want.
I've scripted this and construct the appropriate arguments for
wget for the situation I'm dealing with, so I'll need to change
my code if wget can no longer filter out the HTML or the command
line arguments change for this.
Just some input from an interested bystander.
Rodney
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