wget (1.9, 1.8.2, everything) removes one of two trailing slashes on the URL given to it. This is incompatible with Freenet (another package in Portage). If I say, for example,: 'wget http://localhost:8888/SSK@rjYFfgPHfolmcStiaoxESFfBXz8PAgM/FreenetHelp//' wget will remove that last forward slash, making the URL incorrect, and giving me an "ERROR 404: Not Found." error, so I can't use wget when I want to retrieve a URL with two trailing slashes. As I understand it, the wget people do this on purpose, because it works around the two remaining (buggy) CERN web servers out there, or some such. Personally, however, I would like wget to fetch the URL I give it. I'm just hoping there's something you (Gentoo developer) can do. Ask the wget people, or make a compile-time patch maybe? I will include a patch that works against wget-1.8.2-r3. I've looked in the wget-1.9 sources, and I can't find where this patch would go in it. The appropriate section of source must have been drastically changed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 'wget http://anyold.com/valid.url//' 2. Observe response. Actual Results: ERROR 404: Not Found. Expected Results: wget should have fetch me the page located at the URL I gave it. Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.22-aa1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-aa1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo ftp://gentoo.noved.org/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt encode gif jpeg libwww motif mpeg ncurses pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib alsa gdbm slang readline arts aalib svga ggi tcltk X sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt kde opengl mozilla cdr aavm dga j-nomsn java maildir mbox memlimit mmx moznoirc moznomail mozsvg nptl pic static tiff type1 vim-with-x wmf xvid -cups -foomaticdb -gnome -libg++ -mad -mikmod -nls -directfb -berkdb"
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the problem is a lot of webservers out on the internet will error if you have //
What's the verdict? Will a change be made or will it stay the way it is?
I think, Maurice, that the answer to your question lies in the dates of the posts. It's been over a year since I posted this, and nothing has happened. Nothing likely will. ={
griffon, you can have wget if you want it -- my schedule is prohibitive until mid to late february and gregf is MIA and has been for a while.
Todd, I'm sorry, but I can not justify the change to wget's behaviour -- I rather think you might take this issue upstream and talk with them about it. Sorry for the latency in responses to this -- I feel bad to have left you hanging like that.
That's okay. Thanks for closing out the bug.
