Re: [Bug-wget] Special -i- to read one URL at a time

[Joel Nothman]

Apologies, Giuseppe. Apparently I remained in a detached head after a  
rebase. Pushed (and confirmed!).

- Joel


On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 21:17:40 +1100, Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden>  
wrote:

> Hi Joel,
>
> I have cloned your repository but I couldn't find that commit.  Could
> you please double check if you have pushed everything?
>
> Thanks,
> Giuseppe
>
>
>
> "Joel Nothman" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > wgetting a list of URLs on STDIN requires reading the entire file into
> > memory before extracting a linked list of URLs into memory. I.e. the
> > STDIN  needs to have EOF before twice the input's memory is spent to
> > store its  URLs.
> >
> > Among other things, this means wget can't deal with infinite URL lists:
> >
> > $ yes http://example.com | wget -i-
> >
> > I've patched wget to special-case reading from STDIN in  
> > retrieve_from_file.
> >
> > Unfortunately my C's a bit rusty, and I wasn't sure how to create an
> > appropriate set of tests.
> >
> > See https://github.com/jnothman/wget (73e9da29)
> >
> > Cheers, and thanks for a great util!
> >
> > - Joel