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List:       wget
Subject:    Re: Problem with whitespace in filename tags
From:       Trey <tmorita () proxicom ! com>
Date:       1997-10-21 14:17:13
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Or maybe into %20 . .

http://somewhere.net/bad%20name/

Trey

On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Mihai T. LAZARESCU wrote:

> Maybe I've got not right the problem, but have you tried to
> enclose the whole URL between double quotes or escaping every
> single space?  Something like:
> 
>     "http://somewhere.net/bad name"
> 
>     or
> 
>     http://somewhere.net/bad\ name
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> Mihai
> 
> On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Richard Jackson wrote:
> 
> > I am using wget to copy files for my intranet. (I have agreed copyright with the 
> > administrator of the site) Some of the htm pages on the site contain white space 
> > in the htm tag to a file, and as a result wget does not find the file. Can you 
> > suggest an easy way to change the wget source code so that whitespace in 
> > filename html tags will be ignored. I had the same problem using webcopy and 
> > have changed the webcopy perl script with successful results.
> > 
> > Richard Jackson
> > jacksonr@hm-treasury.gov.uk
> 

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