David Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what do the various request refresh
> options mean?
Sorry if this is a late reply.
> When requesting recursively, there are options to request:
>
> - this URL only
>
> Does that mean that only URLs directly linked from that URL will be
> requested (and therefore that depth >= 2 is meaningless?)
Yes this is correct. Since it is not possible in HTML forms to have
the selection in one list item to affect another there is no good way
to express this. If you select 'this URL only' from the second list
then the depth in the first list is ignored.
> - in the same directory
>
> Does that mean in the sense that somehost.dom/part1/part2
> will only fetch URLs which have /part1/part2 in them?
No, the URL 'somehost.dom/part1/part2' has a directory of '/part1/' so
it will only fetch within that directory. You might have meant that
the original URL was 'somehost.dom/part1/part2/' in which case only
files that are in the '/part1/part2/' directory will be fetched.
> If a URL is found which doesn't have that in it, it won't be fetched?
> Would a URL part1/ or part1/part2/part3 be fetched in that case?
In the case of 'somehost.dom/part1/part2' then both of these will be
fetched, but if you started at 'somehost.dom/part1/part2/' then only
the second would be feteched.
> What if the start URL given is somehost.dom/part1?
> Will only URLs when end in part1 (final part ("filename") excepted) will
> be fetched? Would URLs ending part1/part2 be fetched in this case?
In this case the directory is '/' which means that all URLs on the
host will be fetched.
> The other 3 options (hopefully!) seem to be self-explanatory..
At least I got something right :-)
--
Andrew.
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