Re: [Bug-wget] Bug in WGET?

[Patrick Steil]

Tony, thanks so much for this tip!  That did help tremendously and I was
able to finish up my migration of my client's website thanks to this!

Appreciate the help...

Any WGET programmers out there want to get paid for some custom WGET
enhancements?  Contact me directly:  address@hidden, thanks!



On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Tony Lewis <address@hidden> wrote:

> Patrick, while you're waiting for someone to improve the output of wget to
> provide the information you want, the --debug output will tell you which
> page generated the reference to the broken link. Look for:
>
> ---request begin---
> GET /path/to/broken_link.html HTTP/1.0
> Referer: http://mysite.com/path/to/source_of_link.html
>
> Tony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:
> address@hidden On Behalf Of Giuseppe Scrivano
> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 5:14 AM
> To: Patrick Steil
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Bug-wget] Bug in WGET?
>
> Patrick Steil <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Also, if I use wget in spider mode, it will at the end of the log
> > output tell me about all the broken links... but I also need to know
> > what page those broken links are created on (if the broken link) is on
> > the site I am getting... this will help me find the 404 on my site...
> >
> > I have a vision for how this should work to make it awesome...
> >
> > Any way to do that, or anyone want to add this functionality?
>
> I don't think it is possible at the moment, but add this feature
> shouldn't take much time.
>
> The feature seems interesting but I don't think it is going to be
> implemented before the next release.
>
> You can wait until someone is going to implement it, or you can take
> advantage of the fact wget is Free software and implement it by yourself
> or hire someone to do it for you.
>
> Cheers,
> Giuseppe
>
>


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