Re: [Bug-wget] can you set wget to retry after a 404 not found error

[Micah Cowan]

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Ben Smith wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a batch file under Windows XP that will try to
> download a daily podcast that gets posted at varying times everyday.
> After a 404 error, wget simply aborts rather than retrying.  I looked
> through the documentation and couldn't find a way to change this
> behavior.  Is it possible to get wget to retry after a period of time
> following a 404 error? Thanks

Nope, and that's not really something I'm interested in supporting in
Wget; retrying after a "period" is not really within Wget's scope; it'd
be better handled by an outside script.

My argument is weakened significantly by Wget's poor management of exit
statuses; however, if you're not using the -r option, it should give a
non-zero exit status, so you can know to retry in another 20 minutes.

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HTH,
Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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