Re: [Bug-wget] Bug report about WGet

[Micah Cowan]

In both cases, your shell is transforming your arguments before wget
gets a chance to see it.

Don't percent-encode ampersands - they need to be literal ampersands in
order to maintain their function as separating key/value pairs.

Instead, be sure to wrap the URL in double quotes ("), to protect your
Windows command shell from interpreting some characters specially.

HTH,
-mjc

On 05/02/2012 06:14 AM, Vladimir wrote:
> Good day!
> 
> At first sorry for mistakes because English is'nt my native language.
> 
> I tried using WGet 1.9 and 1.11 (downloading variant for Windows) and found 
> one trouble in both versions.
> 
> I need to retrieve URL, contained such symbol as "&". This URL is:
> http://cargo.rzd.ru/cargostation/public/cargo?STRUCTURE_ID=5101&layer_id=4829&refererLayerId=4821&id=1
> (This page is in Russian, don't pay attention on language.)
> 
> But I can't encode this symbol. I tried to use construction "%26" instead of 
> "&":
> http://cargo.rzd.ru/cargostation/public/cargo?STRUCTURE_ID=5101%26layer_id=4829%26refererLayerId=4821%26id=1
> 
> But WGet send it as:
> http://cargo.rzd.ru/cargostation/public/cargo?STRUCTURE_ID=51016layer_id=48296refererLayerId=48216id=1
> 
> E.g. WGet decode "%2", not "%26"! Only first digit of hexadecimal 
> representation of the character's ascii value is using.
> 
> 
> I hope you will understand this description and fix this problem.
> 
> Vladimir.
> 
>