Re: [Bug-wget] Wget hanging problem

[Jochen Roderburg]

Zitat von Iman Saleh <address@hidden>:

> I have a problem with a specific URL that makes wget hangs, I tried  
> to use -d option for debugging but nothing is printed. I also tried  
> to set timeout to 10 seconds only but it also hangs. The URL is  
> http://en.wikipedia.org/Special:Export/Con. Any ideas?
>
>  Iman

You should have mentioned on which system this happens.

If by any chance this is under Windows, "con" is a special reserved  
file name there (for the serial port).
Try to redirect the output to another file with -O filename.

Regards, J.Roderburg