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Re: [Bug-wget] -E --html-extension is overzealous?
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Micah Cowan |
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Re: [Bug-wget] -E --html-extension is overzealous? |
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Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:15:02 -0800 |
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Scott Bronson wrote:
> It would be nice if -E would only add an .html extension if it was pretty
> sure that the file is HTML.
That's exactly what it does.
> On the site I'm spidering, wget converted all the RSS feeds to have an .html
> extension which, as you can imagine, leads to some pandemonium.
That would be because the remote server is out-and-out lying to wget
about the file's type, and wget believes it.
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Micah J. Cowan
http://micah.cowan.name/