Re: [Bug-wget] Downloading files with specific extensions

[Vikram Narayanan]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Micah Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> (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:
>>>
>>>> Isn't it a waste of bandwidth?
>>>> Is it not possible to check only the PDF files without downloading the
>>> whole content?
>>>
>>> wget has to download HTML content in order to discover where the PDF files
>>> are located,
>>>
>> 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.
I can very well understand now. Thanks for the hint.
BTW, does wget have a mechanism to files with specific extensions
without downloading the whole thing.?

~Vikram