Re: [Bug-wget] ot: extracting content from d/l pages

[Ángel González]

On 07/01/14 04:40, address@hidden wrote:
> thanks for all the tips, snippets and encouragement!
>
> I eventually suceeded in 'pushing buttons', and, 'got in', got my page
>
> this is somewhat off topic, but, perhaps there is option that can help me ?
>
> I have like:
>
> wget -O page.html url
> links -dump page.html>  page.txt
>
> that worked well, till server got re-developed
>
> when I run the script, page.html DOES contain desired data, BUT, NOT page.txt
>
> looking at page.html it has like[1]:
>
> readonly? is this some sort of attempt to prevent copying of data..?
>
> thanks for any pointers
That's a html5 attribute
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-input-element-attributes.html#the-readonly-attribute

It is not intended to avoid copying, just to make that you cannot change 
it in the browser but still select, copy, etc. It shouldn't affect your 
process (unless that attribute somehow confuses links program?)