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Re: [Bug-wget] recursive_retrieve()


From: Dale R. Worley
Subject: Re: [Bug-wget] recursive_retrieve()
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 15:59:22 -0500

Tim Rühsen <address@hidden> writes:
>> It seems like this needs something like "Note that this is matched
>> against the entire part of the URL following the final slash; for URLs
>> containing queries, it may not be the final component of the path part
>> of the URL."
>
> It is matched against the (local) filename (file part of the path), whatever 
> that contains or looks alike.

The problem is that "the (local) filename" in this istance isn't the
file part of the *path* part of the URL, which is a well-defined (RFC
3986) and commonly-used term.  The manual page needs to be clearer on
this if we don't want to force people to run experiments to know what
wget does.

Dale



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