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Charles wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Aleksandar Radulovic
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> (I am not subscribed to the bug-list)
>>
>>        Hello,
>>
>>        I use wget to retreive recurively images from a site,
>> which are randomly changed on a daily basis . I wrote
>> small batch which worked until sistem upgrade. Now the
>> new version of wget is installed but it aborts when
>> any file already exists.
> 
> When I tried this in my wget, I got different behavior with wget 1.11
> alpha and wget 1.10.2
> 
> D:\>wget --proxy=off -r -l 1 -nc -np http://localhost/test/
> File `localhost/test/index.html' already there; not retrieving.
> 
> 
> D:\>wget110 --proxy=off -r -l 1 -nc -np http://localhost/test/
> File `localhost/test/index.html' already there; not retrieving.
> 
> File `localhost/test/a.gif' already there; not retrieving.
> 
> File `localhost/test/b.gif' already there; not retrieving.
> 
> File `localhost/test/c.jpg' already there; not retrieving.
> 
> FINISHED --20:31:41--
> Downloaded: 0 bytes in 0 files
> 
> I think wget 1.10.2 behavior is more correct. Anyway it did not abort
> in my case.

I think I like the 1.11 behavior (I'm assuming it's intentional). It
assums, though, that the preexisting index.html corresponds to the one
that you were trying to download; it's unclear to me how wise that is.
Hrvoje, are you aware of this change and its rationale?

- --
Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer...
http://micah.cowan.name/
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