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Re: [Bug-wget] Downloading files with specific extensions
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Micah Cowan |
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Re: [Bug-wget] Downloading files with specific extensions |
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Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:46:02 -0800 |
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(2011年12月22日 08:39), Vikram Narayanan wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Tony Lewis <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Vikram Narayanan wrote:
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>>> Isn't it a waste of bandwidth?
>>> Is it not possible to check only the PDF files without downloading the
>> whole content?
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>> wget has to download HTML content in order to discover where the PDF files
>> are located,
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> But curl does it with ease. :)
> Why can't wget?
I don't really know what you're referring to here. Curl doesn't do
recursive fetches, so it can't possible download "just the PDF files"
from a site by itself. I'm not sure why you think _any_ program can
manage to find all the PDF files on a site, without first downloading
enough information to find where those PDF files might be.
-mjc