Re: [Bug-wget] Shouldn't wget strip leading spaces from a URL?

[Ander Juaristi]

Your shell strips all the additional spaces between command-line arguments, so
it's effectively like a browser ;)

How are you running wget?

On 06/06/17 01:12, L A Walsh wrote:
> if wget gets leading spaces in a URL, it complains:
>  "  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.30: Scheme missing."
> 
> Isn't it required for a web client to strip leading spaces from
> URLs?
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