Re: [Bug-wget] Configuration to ignore a specified domain, or treat it differently?

[Tim Ruehsen]

On Tuesday 25 November 2014 16:36:27 Dun Peal wrote:
> I'm using wget to mirror an old website with all of its
> --page-requisites. Unfortunately, one of the domains which used to
> serve some of these requisites - is now offline. Every time wget tries
> to get anything from that domain, it blocks for 10+ seconds until the
> connection finally times out.
> 
> This issue is substantially exacerbated by the 20 retries. I want to
> keep the default retry count at 20, but I know this one particular
> domain is never going to respond.
> 
> Is there a way to tell wget to ignore that domain entirely, i.e. not
> try to fetch anything from there?

      --exclude-domains domain-list
           Specify the domains that are not to be followed.

also, see 'man wget'

Tim

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