Re: [Bug-wget] --convert-links and 302 redirects

[Micah Cowan]

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Hrunting Johnson wrote:
> Using the latest version of wget, it appears that --convert-links doesn't work
> when the URL being fetched is a redirect to another URL.  For example:
> 
> Server: www.host.com:
> 
> <base href="http://foo.host.com";>
> <a href="/foo">Foo</a>
> 
> If http://foo.host.com/foo redirects to http://bar.host.com/foo, then the data
> for http://bar.host.com/foo gets downloaded and followed properly, but the URL
> /foo gets rewritten improperly to http://foo.host.com/foo (should be
> ../bar.host.com/foo), which breaks the mirror.  Other, non-redirected links 
> get
> rewritten just fine.
> 
> Can anyone else confirm this behavior?
> 
> The command I'm running is:
> 
> wget --timeout=30 -E -H -p --convert-links -r -p --domains=host.com -e
> robots=off -P host.com http://www.host.com/
> 
> Thanks in advance.

Opened a report at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?27694

Can you please determine whether this is a regression? Does Wget 1.11.4
have the same, or different behavior?

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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