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


From: Micah Cowan
Subject: Re: [Bug-wget] How do you prevent the download of default-page files?
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:37:01 -0700
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On 06/27/2010 04:06 AM, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> "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.

It wouldn't normally make any sense to do so either. Not downloading the
default-page files would usually prevent you from traversing the site
much at all.

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



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