Re: [Bug-wget] How do you prevent the download of default-page files?

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

"Paul" <address@hidden> writes:

> "When wget encounters a URL that ends in a slash, since there's no file
> name, wget has no idea what it should name it, but does have to name it
> something. So it goes with the traditional "index.html" filename."
>  
> I would like to prevent the downloading of this file retreived when the URL
> ends in a slash.  How do you do that?

you can't do it.  All you can do is to choose a different file name,
using the --default-page option to wget.


Cheers,
Giuseppe