Re: [Bug-wget] wget and filename redirection

[Henrik Holst]

--trust-server-names should perform what you request.

/HH

fre 2012-02-10 klockan 10:50 +0800 skrev Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan:
> Hi,
> 
> A newbie question.
> 
> Does wget have the feature to follow filename redirection?
> 
> Meaning of filename redirection is, a website
> http://example.com/download/latest will always redirect to the latest file
> URL, such as http://example.com/download/apps-1.2.3.tar.gz , but wget will
> save the file as "latest" .
> 
> Is there a way to save the file according to the name it redirects to? If
> the feature is not available, I would really appreciate if it could be
> implemented.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> Reference:
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/wget-and-redirection-345815/
> 
> My own example:
> 
> address@hidden:~# wget http://codeigniter.com/download.php
> --2012-02-10 10:26:51--  http://codeigniter.com/download.php
> Resolving codeigniter.com (codeigniter.com)... 216.250.166.124
> Connecting to codeigniter.com (codeigniter.com)|216.250.166.124|:80...
> connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
> Location: download_files/reactor/CodeIgniter_2.1.0.zip [following]
> --2012-02-10 10:26:52--
> http://codeigniter.com/download_files/reactor/CodeIgniter_2.1.0.zip
> Reusing existing connection to codeigniter.com:80.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 2313430 (2.2M) [application/zip]
> Saving to: `download.php'
> 
> 100%[==============================================================================================================================>]
> 2,313,430   63.9K/s   in 71s
> 
> 2012-02-10 10:28:03 (31.8 KB/s) - `download.php' saved [2313430/2313430]
> 
> 
> 
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