Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Let's say there's this tasty URL out there that you'd just love to get
> but you're worried how big it is. 50K, 500K, 5M, who knows.
>
> Well, I'm under the impression that, with wwwoffle around, any attempt
> to get a look at this file sideways will result in a full frontal
> download, and probably the safest thing to do first is
>
> $ wget -Y off --spider URL
If you are online and use
wget -Y on --spider URL
and then decide that the page is too large then pressing Control-C
will stop wget. This will mean that WWWOFFLE will stop downloading
the page unless the intr-download-size or intr-download-percent
options are set to keep on downloading the page.
--
Andrew.
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Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
WWWOFFLE users page:
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.7/user.html
