wget 1.8.2

PinkJin · 11-15-2002, 07:59 PM

I've been using wget -m to mirror some websites and version 1.8.1 worked exactly as I wanted. However I've now upgraded my Red Hat to 8.0 & Mandrake to 9.0, so I now have wget 1.8.2. Now my wget scripts are spanning external hosts, which didn't happen before. The documentation says that 1.8.2 is just a bug fix with no change for users and also, the man page says that hosts shoulg not be spanned by default. I don't have a .wgetrc file and I can't find anything suspicious in /etc/wgetrc. Any ideas?

RijilV · 11-16-2002, 02:43 PM

hrm, odd, a quick fix would be to use the -L option.... but -m should be working...

for whats it worth, I just used wget 1.8.2 to mirror a website with plenty of external links, and it worked fine....perhaps the sites you are trying to mirror are doing something that is tricking wget? could you give me an example of a site you tried to mirror with the -m option that grabbed content from elsewhere?

I did blackops.rubi-con.org just fine...

PinkJin · 11-17-2002, 04:14 AM

Thanks for the reply.

I tried your rubi-con site which worked fine. One of the sites I use is www.manchester.com, which still doesn't. I just used 'wget -m www.manchester.com -o log.txt&' (I usually also include -w, but I wanted a quick result). After about 8 hours, it was still running and I had lots of directories representing external sites; they all contained just a few files.

RijilV · 11-17-2002, 05:50 AM

I going to guess then its something about the web-code on that manchester website, I took a look at it and it seemed pretty goofy, with tons of javascript in there. I bet wget is just getting confused regarding some of the external links.

unless that is, wget was caching that site correctly before, and now it isn't. in that case, I would probably submit a bug to the makers of wget

PinkJin · 11-24-2002, 04:20 PM

I tried using -L option, but no change. Also I tried reinstalling 1.8.1 from the Mandrake 8.2 distro; that didn't make any difference either.

I've been looking on the wget list at sunsite.dk and there seem to be other people reporting similar things. It doesn't look like a problem with the wget binaries; maybe something changed elsewhere?

GTS