Re: [Bug-wget] Files downloading to root directory of program calling wget

[Micah Cowan]

Brad Wardman wrote:
> Micah,
> 
> I am sorry for not getting back to you earlier on this, but needed to
> find URLs that is causing these problems with downloading to the wrong
> directories.
> 
> Two example URLs, first downloads a .doc and the latter downloads a
> couple of pdfs.  The first file is downloaded from a redirect, but other
> redirects do not have the same behavior.  I also noticed that the latter
> URL calls the pdfs from an index.php parameter called id and requests
> (e.g., id = 14%3AnameOfFile) the file with a numeric (e.g., 14,15,16)
> followed by the hex value (%3A) for a colon, and then the name of the pdf.
> 
> http://bit.ly/aoISTU
> http://203.125.30.69/hsl/hslnieuwsbrief28/

The .doc file ends up inside the -P directory for me.

The other one doesn't result in an pdfs for me. It does if I add
--content-disposition, but it still lives in -P as it should (both in
1.12 and 1.11.4).

> 
> Below is my command line execution:
>>wget --referer="http://www.google.com"; --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0....."
> -t 1 -e robots=off -k -np -l 5 -P wgetFolder URL

This isn't complete. It doesn't have recursive-descent options, so would
never download more than one file as given.

Please provide:
  - The version of Wget you're using
  - The operating system you're running it on
  - The contents of any ~/.wgetrc and/or /etc/wgetrc, as apparently
there are more options being specified than you're actually giving at
the command-line (almost certainly including
--content-disposition/content_disposition, and perhaps recursive or mirror).
  - A relevant snippet of the log output when --debug is provided
(probably for the http://bit.ly/aoISTU one, since that's only one file
to download so will have a much shorter log).

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Micah J. Cowan
http://micah.cowan.name/