Re: lynx-dev wget error

[John Poltorak]

> 
> On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, John Poltorak wrote:
> 
> > > > <H2>Bad Content Type</H2>Too few parameters were passed to this
> > > > script.<br>
> > > > You must pass at least an action and an owner ID to this script
> > > 
> > > I just tried this with EXTERNAL set to use wget for http transfers,
> > > using lynx2.8.1dev.9 with SunOS 4.1.3_U1. The file was obtained without
> > > problem. What is the exact line in your lynx.cfg for the EXTERNAL use of
> > > wget? Which version of lynx on what operating system are you using?
> > >                              Doug
> > 
> > I'm using OS/2 Warp 3 with Lynx 2.8.1dev.13 and wget 1.5.0 .
> > 
> > 
> > EXTERNAL:http:start "Saving location" /c /f wget -P /in/http -nd %s:TRUE
> 
> I don't know much about OS/2, but it looks like wget is not passing the
> full URL, which contains configuration information to the cgi-bin
> script. I would consider trying to quote %s in whatever way is
> appropriate for OS/2, to make sure that the shell doesn't truncate the
> URL (e.g. '%s', or "%s").
>                                Doug

I've just tried it again, and it looks like the URL includes
characters which are invalid for a filename under OS/2. Including the
'-O' parameter with a target filename in wget retrieves the page fine.


...wonders... is there any way to edit the EXTERNAL commandline just
before it is issued by LYNX. Or even, is there a wget parameter which
would convert a URL into filename which is valid for the local filesystem?

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John