Thanks for the explanations. Unfortunately, I don't find them convincing:
So the fonts/ directory is not automatically deleted by wget when it is
empty. It was used for temporary files during the download.
<<
Actually, the "fonts" directory is *not* empty, nor are the "Fonts_*
_Conflict" directories.
Why should '@CalendarView' match 'calendar[@/?]' ?
<<
The component of the regex which should match is not "calendar[@\?].*" (the
first term in the regex). It is "event-\d+[@\?].*" (the fourth and last term
in the regex).
Once again, https://regex101.com/ confirms that
"event-4193082@CalendarViewType=1&SelectedDate=6%2F27%2F2021.html" matches
this term.
Thanks for your support.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Rühsen <tim.ruehsen@gmx.de>
Sent: Monday, July 5, 2021 4:09 PM
To: Roger Brooks <r.s.brooks@ieee.org>; bug-wget@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Exclusion failures
On 28.06.21 19:36, Roger Brooks wrote:
I am trying to use wget 1.19.1 to back up a club website. Here is a
reduced version of my wget command, which only accesses the public
parts of the
website:
cd /volume1/Backup/
wget -EkKrNpH \
--output-file=wget.log \
--domains=imcz.club,sf.wildapricot.org \
--exclude-domains=webmail.imcz.club \
--exclude-directories=calendar,Club-Events,External-Events,Sys,Fonts,f
onts
\
--ignore-case \
--level=2 \
--no-parent \
--no-proxy \
--random-wait \
--reject=ashx,"overlay*" \
--reject-regex="calendar[@\?].*|Club-Events[@\?].*|External-Events[@\?].*|event-\d+[@\?].*"
\
--rejected-log=wget-rejected.log \
--restrict-file-names=windows \
--wait=1 \
https://imcz.club/
<<
Two of the exclusions in the command are failing:
1. -exclude-directories=Fonts, fonts
This is a workaround for wget’s creation of spurious font directories.
The server has only one such directory, but the website’s backend
platform (over which I have no control) sometimes addresses it as
“fonts” and sometimes as “Fonts”.
I expected that the option "--ignore-case" in the absence of
"--no-clobber"
would take care of this problem, but since the contents are static, I
don’t need to back it up regularly. Despite the exclusion, wget still
insists on creating the following directories:
"W:\imcz.club\BuiltTheme\whiteboard_maya_blue.v3.0\10e4279e\fonts"
"W:\imcz.club\BuiltTheme\whiteboard_maya_blue.v3.0\10e4279e\Fonts_ADMIN_Jun-27-230456-2021_Conflict"
"W:\imcz.club\BuiltTheme\whiteboard_maya_blue.v3.0\10e4279e\Fonts_ADMIN_Jun-27-230459-2021_Conflict"
"W:\imcz.club\BuiltTheme\whiteboard_maya_blue.v3.0\10e4279e\Fonts_ADMIN_Jun-27-230501-2021_Conflict"
"W:\imcz.club\BuiltTheme\whiteboard_maya_blue.v3.0\10e4279e\Fonts_ADMIN_Jun-27-230504-2021_Conflict"
The resulting backup website does not find the fonts in the "_Conflict"
directories; they have to be copied into the "fonts" directory for the
pages in the mirrored site to display properly.
So the fonts/ directory is not automatically deleted by wget when it is
empty. It was used for temporary files during the download.
This is a known "issue", but since an empty directory doesn't eat too much
space on a disk, it wasn't fixed yet (maybe nobody thought it is relevant).
Wget2 doesn't have this issue.
I don't know where the *_Conflict/ directories are from. Seems like a server
thing.
2.
--reject-regex="calendar[@\?].*|Club-Events[@\?].*|External-Events[@\?].*|event-\d+[@\?].*"
\
This is an attempt to prevent duplicate downloading of files. The
following
file is downloaded, even though https://regex101.com says that it matches
my
regex:
"W:\imcz.club\event-4193082@CalendarViewType=1&SelectedDate=6%2F27%2F2021.html"
It is effectively a duplicate of:
"W:\imcz.club\event-4193082.html"
Increasing "--level" produces additional examples.
Why should '@CalendarView' match 'calendar[@/?]' ?
Maybe your regex should be '[@\?]calendar.*' !?
Regards, Tim
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