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From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Rogelio
Sent: November 22, 2007 12:08 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: [CentOS] wget'ing files relative paths?

I'm trying to wget some very specific files off a web page, but some of the paths are relative paths (e.g. ../path/to/file) rather than abosolute (e.g. http://direct/path/to/file ). Obviously, when wget gets to that part, it craps out...
 
I am a little unsure on what you are trying to do...are you mirroring a certain section of a website, and the relative paths are causing problems? that would be pretty strange, because I am pretty sure that i have done that before and not had any problems (just using wget -m http://hostname/path/I/care/about/file.html).
 
or do you have a list of URL's you are trying to grab (say in a file or something), that only have the relative paths? something like this:
  http://direct/path/to/file1
  http://direct/path/to/file2
  http://direct/path/to/file3
  http://direct/path/to/file4
  ../../file5
  ../../file6
 
 
if possible, it would be great if you could show the exact command line that you are using, along with the exact error message.
 
Is there a switch in wget (in CentOS 5 - latest wget package) that lets me maintain this session?  I tried some of the options here ( http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/HTTP-Options.html ), but it's not working, and I'm hoping someone here might point me in the right direction. 
 
 
Mike