Re: [Bug-wget] Any limits on -X? Last item being ignored

[Micah Cowan]

(12/15/2010 03:27 AM), Henry C. wrote:
> On Mon, December 13, 2010 19:25, Micah Cowan wrote:
>> ... -R rejects for filenames; but at this time,
>> there isn't anything that matches against anything that comes after the
>> question mark ("query strings").
> 
> 
> ouch, I just ran some tests and you're right.  My silly assumption was way 
> off.
> 
> I think I'll need to add to my toolkit of patches another arg so I can do:
> 
> --ignore-regex='[.]html[?]foo=bar,[?]foo=xyz$' etc
> 
> libpcre should do just fine with maximum flexibility.

Although, since the current dev sources use gnulib, gnulib's regex
module makes an easy solution as well. I think the eventual plan is to
use that (though they might go for PCRE, I dunno).

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Micah J. Cowan
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