#479589 wget: Doesn't understand file:/// URLs

Package:
wget
Source:
wget
Description:
retrieves files from the web
Submitter:
John Goerzen
Date:
2015-12-17 16:45:16 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#479589#5
Date:
2008-05-05 16:24:50 UTC
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This is bugging me for several reasons:

1) If starting a recursive download, I may have a local page giving
the URLs to download, rather than a remote one

2) For use in scripts, sometimes local files may be desired
#479589#10
Date:
2008-05-05 17:05:05 UTC
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John Goerzen wrote:

Note that this one can be solved with the use of --force-html
--input-file=<...>
#479589#15
Date:
2008-05-05 18:05:48 UTC
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Well, halfway.  It inreacts strangely with -r and -l, I have found.
#479589#26
Date:
2011-07-23 08:36:54 UTC
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URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?33824>

                 Summary: support file:/// URLs
                 Project: GNU Wget
            Submitted by: nok
            Submitted on: Sa 23 Jul 2011 10:36:53 CEST
                Category: Feature Request
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name:
        Originator Email:
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 1.12
        Operating System: GNU/Linux
         Reproducibility: None
           Fixed Release: None
         Planned Release: None
              Regression: None
           Work Required: None
          Patch Included: No


Note that this one can be solved with the use of --force-html
- --input-file=<...>
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comment from reporter John


Well, halfway.  It inreacts strangely with -r and -l, I have found.
--8<--

so reporting this as wishlist/feature request to support file:// URLs

thx.
#479589#31
Date:
2015-12-16 01:24:58 UTC
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Follow-up Comment #1, bug #33824 (project wget):

This is a duplicate of #24347: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?24347
#479589#36
Date:
2015-12-17 16:27:36 UTC
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Update of bug #33824 (project wget):

                  Status:                    None => Duplicate
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed