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Re: [Bug-wget] Mac - Windows discrepancy


From: Ángel González
Subject: Re: [Bug-wget] Mac - Windows discrepancy
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 16:25:07 +0100
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On 03/12/12 00:55, John Shinnick wrote:
> Hello
>
>
> I am in the process of moving from Windows to Mac and accordingly downloaded 
> Wget software for my new machine.  In windows, I typed the command line:
>      
> wget -r -k -l 0 www.JohnShinnick.com.
>
> It retrieved everything on my site (which is hosted externally through 
> att.Yahoo) whether it was hooked up to the main page or not.  In the Mac 
> version, I get only the pages that are linked to the main page, which is far 
> less desirable.
So you are reporting that you get all pages linked from
http://www.johnshinnick.com/index.html but
not from eg. http://www.johnshinnick.com/TravelsOfShin.html ?

You are specifying -l 0, so it should be doign an infinite recursion.
That behavior is wrong. You could also try -l inf to see if there is any
difference.

> I've read through the documentation and find nothing to explain 
> this discrepancy.  Is it a difference between Mac and PC or did the change 
> occur 
> in more  recent versions of the overall product?
>
> Whatever, I believe the 2 products should behave the same way, retrieving the 
> full web content.
Can you provide the output of running wget --version on each of them?




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