Re: [Bug-wget] how to discriminate virtual hosts

[Micah Cowan]

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Giacomo Lacava wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to use wget to retrieve the content of a virtual host, without
> downloading anything from others even if they are behind a redirect.
> 
> This doesn't seem to be possible at the moment; even if I use -D and specify 
> the
> subdomain (e.g. www.mysite.com), redirects will be followed to other 
> subdomains
> (e.g. store.mysite.com) as long as it's on the same machine.
> 
> Do I understand correctly? 
> Is there any way for the -D option to actually filter on the provided hostname
> rather than on the resolved IP, not discarding the subdomain?

It doesn't discard the subdomain; your problem is actually that
redirects are currently always unconditionally followed (hostname
matching and such aren't performed on them).

We do plan to address this at some point, but it's not one of our
largest priorities.

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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