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List:       wget
Subject:    Suggestion/Question
From:       Markus Raab <spam.isapi.redir.dll () web ! de>
Date:       2006-02-26 10:39:46
Message-ID: 44018572.8000607 () web ! de
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Hallo,

yesterday I encountered to wget and I find it a very useful program. I 
am mirroring a big site, more precious a forum. Because it is a forum 
under each post you have the action "quote". Because that forum has 
20.000 post it would download all with "action=quote", so I rejected it 
with R="*action=quote*". It works as in the manual documented, the files 
aren't stored, but they are downloaded anyway and deleted right after 
downloading. Why can't wget skip these files resp urls that would make 
downloading much faster and the site admin would also be happy because 
he has less traffic. If it has to do that wget must get these files to 
ensure that it doesn't "forget" anything downloading then a switch would 
be useful to turn this behaviour of manually, if the user knows that he 
doesn't need that an the deeper documents. In a forum e.g. it is 
absolutely clear that you can abdicate analysing this files because the 
won't link to any further documents.
Thanks for your answer.

Markus
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