Re: [Bug-wget] single-quoted URLs in meta refresh tag.

[Darshit Shah]

Hi Jeff,

If this patch allows Wget to better retrieve files from the internet, I
don't see why it would be unwanted slop. Sure, such patches are always
welcome!

However, it would be excellent if you could:
1. Give an example of a real website doing this.
2. Write a test case demonstrating how your patch fixes something that was
earlier broken.

I can help you with the test case if required.


On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Jeff Janes <address@hidden> wrote:

> I often see redirecting meta refresh tags with single-quotes around the
> URL, like:
>
> <meta http-equiv="refresh"
> content="0;URL='/our_site/index.php/front_page'">
>
> wget tries to fetch the URL literally containing the single quotes.
>
> All of the browsers I tried (IE, firefox, chrome, lynx) will strip off the
> single quotes.
>
> Would a patch to implement the single-quote stripping to wget be welcomed,
> or would that be unwanted slop?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>



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Thanking You,
Darshit Shah