Re: [Bug-wget] Bug in WGET?

[Tony Lewis]

Patrick, while you're waiting for someone to improve the output of wget to 
provide the information you want, the --debug output will tell you which page 
generated the reference to the broken link. Look for:

---request begin---
GET /path/to/broken_link.html HTTP/1.0
Referer: http://mysite.com/path/to/source_of_link.html
 
Tony
-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Giuseppe Scrivano
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 5:14 AM
To: Patrick Steil
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Bug-wget] Bug in WGET?

Patrick Steil <address@hidden> writes:

> Also, if I use wget in spider mode, it will at the end of the log
> output tell me about all the broken links... but I also need to know
> what page those broken links are created on (if the broken link) is on
> the site I am getting... this will help me find the 404 on my site... 
>
> I have a vision for how this should work to make it awesome... 
>
> Any way to do that, or anyone want to add this functionality?

I don't think it is possible at the moment, but add this feature
shouldn't take much time.

The feature seems interesting but I don't think it is going to be
implemented before the next release.

You can wait until someone is going to implement it, or you can take
advantage of the fact wget is Free software and implement it by yourself
or hire someone to do it for you.

Cheers,
Giuseppe