Re: WGET Syntax for a URL with cgi scripts.

Fred Holmes wrote:
> Many thanks for the help.  I'm using Windows 32 binary 1.8.2 on WIN2K.
>
> The syntax you have given me gets the first page OK, apparently by using 
> the -O switch to specify a simple filename as the output file, rather 
> than the automatically generated output filename(s).  I.e., I get the 
> Table of Contents in content.html.  But when I add the rest of my syntax 

Sorry, drop the -O part it was as you have guessed only used to avoid 
files with long strange looking names.

> to recurse the links on the TOC page, it still fails.  As follows:
>
> D:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\New Folder>WGET -d -r 
> -l2 -k -K
> -p -np -O content.html 
> "http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/0?r_t=a&r_n=107-79
> 1&submit=Search&variant=y&acronym=n&syndict=n&spq=n&sort_by_docid=n&d_q=on&dbnam 
>
> e=cp107&maxdocs=100&report=hr791.107&xform_type=3&sel=TOCLIST"
> DEBUG output created by Wget 1.8.2 on Windows.
>
> (...)
> Fred Holmes
>
>
> At 03:35 PM 1/8/2003, you wrote:
> > Which version of wget do you use? Would please you include the debug 
> > output with the error message if you are running the latest version 
> > (1.8.2). As you can see I have no problem with this page.
> > Yes, you should use quotes to protect the '?' and the '&' from your 
> > shell.
> >
> > $ wget -d -O content.html 
> > "http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/0?r_t=a&r_n=107-791&submit=Search&variant=y&acronym=n&syndict=n&spq=n&sort_by_docid=n&d_q=on&dbname=cp107&maxdocs=100&report=hr791.107&xform_type=3&sel=TOCLIST"; 

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