Re: [Bug-wget] Files downloaded from pages using "303 See Other" named wrongly

[Ángel González]

On 13/09/13 18:27, Nicolas Rodsevich wrote:
> Hi, I was downloading all files from a site using the following command:
>
> wget  -nd -v -r --accept-regex '.*mod.*resource/.*' --header 'Host: 
> catedras.info.unlp.edu.ar' --header 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; 
> Linux x86_64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0' --header 'Accept: 
> text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8' --header 
> 'Accept-Language: es-ar,es;q=0.7,en-us;q=0.3' --header 'DNT: 1' --header 
> 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' --header 'Cookie: 
> __utma=135945449.1331125489.1377905747.1378736807.1378776921.6; 
> __utmz=135945449.1377905747.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); 
> __utmc=135945449; MoodleSession=bp13b0uafi72eu68v29hlrvih5; 
> MOODLEID1_=%25D1%25E3%257E%25AE%250C%257D%2519%25A1' 
> https://catedras.info.unlp.edu.ar/course/view.php?id=597
>
> Wget downloaded correctly all files, but when a page used the 303 See Other 
> directive to send the file, the file wasn't saved with the name of the mirrored 
> page, but with the previous one. Don't know if this is a bug, if it's not it 
> would be a good proposal to add an option like --save-with-redirect-name or 
> something in order to avoid this bad functionality.
Hola Nicolas,

That's done on purpose. Think what would happen if the redirect was to a 
filename which happen to be executed automatically by your 
shell/desktop/program... An option to accept the redirected filename 
already exists: --trust-server-names