Re: Recursive downloading of pages through the "action" attributes of the following "form" tags

[Tim Rühsen]

On 17.04.23 21:22, BERBAR Florian wrote:
> Hi folk,
>
> I have question about recursive downloading of webpages. Trying to 
> download all pages from a website using recursing option (--recursive) 
> on wget 1.21, the webpages processing seems to don't follow form 
> "action" attributs of "form" tags.
>
> - Does it be the expecting behavior?
> - Is there a combination of options to download all pages of a website 
> with the attribut "action"?
>
>
> Exemple with 3 HTML pages :
>
> - Page 1 - form.html : HTML form with "action" attribut pointing to 
> "Page 2"
> - Page 2 - post.html : HTML page with a link to "Page 3".
> - Page 3 - link.html : HTML page without link.
>
> I tried this command to download all tree pages but only "Page 1" was 
> downloaded:
>
> $ wget -r https://host/form.html
>
>
> I tried "--follow-tags=form" option but the same behavior was observed.

Generally, Wget supports form tags with action attributes.
So maybe you encounter malformed HTML or there is a bug in Wget.

Could you please give us a copy of that page, or at least the HTML part 
containing the form tags ?

Regards, Tim

> Regards,
>
> Florian

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