wget problem

[Randall R Schulz]

David,

I use Cygwin wget _a lot_ and it works very well and quite reliably.

Almost certainly the problem was either transient or a problem at 
Vidhubhushana's end (computer, networking hardware, outside connectivity, 
firewall, proxy, cache, ISP, etc.).

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 13:53 2002-07-16, Robinow, David wrote:
> > From: Vidhubhushana G Vankadari
> > [mailto:vidhubhushana.g.vankadari@aexp.com]
> > Subject: wget problem
> >     I downloaded the wget (as part of cygwin). I am trying to
> > retrive the files&directories from site(example
> > http://www.marvelinfotech.com) using the
> > command wget -r http://www.marvelinfotech.com. But it is not working.
> >
> > The error is coming as:
> > http://www.marvelinfotech.com
> >  >> 'www.marvelinfotech.com/index.html'
> > Resolving www.marvelinfotech.com ... failed : Host not found
> >
> >  I think by default it is trying to search for index.html.
> >
> >  It is giving the same error for any given site.
> >
> >  My purpose to use this tool is to find the structure and
> > retrieve all files and links from a given website.
> >  Please look into it and let me know what to do and what
> > options I have to give.
>
>   Works for me!  I'm afraid I'm no networking expert but I suggest you
>download the windows native version of wget from
>ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/wget/windows/ and see if that works.  If that
>works and cygwin wget doesn't, that might interest somebody on this list.
>If it doesn't work try the wget mailing list (see
>http://wget.sunsite.dk/#mailinglists for subscription info)


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