Re: [Bug-wget] mirroring one sourceforge package?

[Karl Berry]

ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/sourceforge/b/project/bi/biblatex-biber/biblatex-biber/current/

Thank you, thank you!  That is perfect.

    I wonder if it's possible that that file is a redirection from a

Just FWIW, I also tried with --max-redirect=0 and --max-redirect=1, but
they seemed to hang forever and/or have no effect, depending on exactly
what options were specified.  Not sure there is any bug there, just
mentioning.

    Adding -R login.php seems a decent workaround

Indeed, I tried that and it worked better.  Then I thought I would try
to exclude the numerous "stats" items, but failed.  I tried

wget -m -np -nv -R login.php -X stats 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/files/biblatex-biber/current/
wget -m -np -nv -R login.php,stats 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/files/biblatex-biber/current/
wget -m -np -nv -R login.php,stats\* 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/files/biblatex-biber/current/

and none of them actually stopped url's like 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/files/biblatex-biber/current/binaries/stats/timeline

from showing up.

Thanks again for all the responses,
karl