David Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> - 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.
>
> Thanks.
> It might help to amend the list to say something like
> "this URL only (depth setting ignored)", perhaps?
That would make the selection box rather wide. I will add this
information to the notes at the bottom.
> >> - 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.
>
> OK.. So am I right in thinking that fetching will go "down" the
> "directory" tree in this case if the depth of search is set deep enough,
> but it won't go "up" (towards the document root) under any circumstances?
I thought trees normally have their roots at the bottom, are directory
trees different?
Yes the searching will only go away from the root (whether that is up
or down is debatable).
> If so, perhaps this should be changed to
> "from this directory 'downwards'"?
I thought that "in this directory" was enough to indicate that the
same directory prefix was always present. I could put "in this
directory or any subdirectory" but that would be too long.
--
Andrew.
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