[bug #59363] wget with --wait (crawling specific domain's specific url with wait)

[anonymous]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59363>

                 Summary: wget with --wait (crawling specific domain's
specific url with wait)
                 Project: GNU Wget
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Tue 27 Oct 2020 02:43:35 AM UTC
                Category: Program Logic
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Makoto Wada
        Originator Email: makoto_wada_jp@yahoo.co.jp
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: 1.20
         Discussion Lock: Any
        Operating System: None
         Reproducibility: Every Time
           Fixed Release: None
         Planned Release: None
              Regression: None
           Work Required: None
          Patch Included: None

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Details:

To whom it may concern,

1. I am using the following
    - GNU Wget 1.20.3 built on linux-gnu.
    - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)
    - WSL (v1, File version: 10.0.18362.1049)
    - Windows 10 Pro (64 bit)
2. I am invoking the command directly through WSL default terminal (bash: )
3. I have executed the following command which I thought it would start wget
process and suspend it until 10 seconds has elapsed. In other words, it would
start downloading after 10 seconds. Instead, it immediately executes.
    wget https://●●●.com/top/index.html --wait=10 --output-document
./top_index.html
I read its documentation which mentions the following (from wget --help):

> -w, --wait=SECONDS       wait SECONDS between retrievals
>     --waitretry=SECONDS  wait 1..SECONDS between retries of a retrieval
>     --random-wait        wait from 0.5WAIT...1.5WAIT secs between
retrievals

Maybe I am reading the documentation wrong but the word "between" sounds
sketchy. What does the word between refer to? I think the documentation should
be more specific. 

I tried finding similar post but I do not think it is mentioned in other
posts. I looked at the following one but this one talks about wait between
retires:

- wget option "--wait" does not work
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=41906




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