Re: Refreshing a mirror throws 'Cannot write to .... (Is a directory)' error, when the directory is alreary downloaded

[Tim Rühsen]

Hi Boris,

On 11/26/19 10:55 AM, Boris Behrens wrote:
> Am Di., 26. Nov. 2019 um 10:13 Uhr schrieb Tim Rühsen <address@hidden>:
>> this very depends on the web site structure, so it may take some time to
>> reproduce with an artificial (test) site.
> I will hand you the URL off list.

Good.

I think you run into the (well-known) issue that there are URLs like
  name/
which is saved as
  name/index.html

Then later there is
  name
which should be saved as 'name' but there already is a a subdir with
that name.

Since with recursive (especially mirroring/timestamping) downloads
'clobbering' is off, no .<N> extensions are generated. Doing so in older
wget versions was possibly considered a bug.

What if you explicitly add --clobber after --mirror ?


>> Could you also test the latest master (git clone
>> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/wget.git) and let us know the result ?
> current master (Wget 1.20.3.41-96d74) behaves the same as the one
> coming with centos (Wget 1.19.5)

Thanks.

Regards, Tim

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