Re: [Bug-wget] Suggestion

[Micah Cowan]

Isn't this exactly what -E does?

It doesn't let you specify arbitrary extensions (as diego seems to ask),
but it certainly tacks .html on after downloaded text/html content (and
plays nicely with -k).

-mjc

Tony Lewis wrote:
> I agree with Diego that it would be useful to rewrite file extensions; just
> today I was mirroring a site with .aspx and I will have to manually rename
> everything to .html so I could open the files locally in my browser. It is
> important to do this within wget so that the links in the downloaded mirror
> get updated too.
> 
> In the meantime, I've got to write a script to do this for me.
> 
> Tony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Diego Efe
> Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 8:43 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [Bug-wget] Suggestion
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
>    I'm a user of your fantastic program.
>    I'm from Argentina, so please excuse my poor english!
> 
>    I have this suggestion:
>    Wouldn't be great if we can specify the extension of the downloaded 
> files, for example .htm? (and, ideally, that the relinking feature (-k)
> could work with it too)
>    I'm thinking this because when we download with -r and the url points
> to a wiki style site, whose pages have no extension, we can't get an
> associated program to open them.
>    Is this clear? (I'm trying my best)
>    Is this functionality already in wget and I didn't find it?
> 
>    I hope this helps and if this is not the proper way to report this,
>  please tell me which is (I got this address from wget --help)
> 
>   Greetings,
> 
> Diego F.
> 
> 
>  
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