Re: [Bug-wget] Filename size limit

[David Pérez Fernández]

>> I?m using Wget on Windows Vista  and it runs faster than other web 

>> crawlers (like Httrack).

>> 

>> Sometimes filename length exceeds the filesystem limit (in Vista this 

>> limit it is 260 characters included the folder name).

 

>Are you sure it is INCLUDING the Path?

>I have PATH + FELENAME much longer than 260 Characters.

>It is Windows (Win7, Viasco, XP) which write it on my Samba Server

I´m not sure, in any case for me the problem is the same, it fails trying to
create files with a many parameters.

 

>> Is there any option to use a hash function (SHA, MD5 ?) to code 

>> filenames in a shorter way? Is there any plan to implement it?

>Use the "-O <filename>" option

The problem of using this option is that I´ve to obtain first the list of
links, obtain URL hash values and translate any URL reference in HTML pages.

 

I suppose that this problem is be very common and solution is a simple hash
function being aware of possible hash code conflicts. In fact httrack use
this method as default URL encoding.