Bug 513194

Summary:	net-misc/wget - --random-wait option is not working
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Kalisox <lsd>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Kalisox 2014-06-14 09:39:57 UTC

I tested all versions in portage, here that option does not work.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
wget --wait 1m --random-wait http://gentoo.org
Actual Results:  
It just download every time without delay.

Comment 1 Kalisox 2014-06-14 09:41:27 UTC

On an interactive shell it works.
You need to do the same in a script file.

Comment 2 Kalisox 2014-06-14 09:45:30 UTC

Ops, seems that is related to [image/jpg] mime not everything.

Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-06-14 10:40:56 UTC

For that to work you need three things on the command line: --wait N --random-wait and more than one URL.

If you are going to script this anyway to have separate wget calls for singular URLs, then you might as well script a sleep time between calls instead of relying on wget to do it.

If you want this behaviour changed or better explained, please complain upstream at the [URL].

Comment 4 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-06-14 10:42:09 UTC

See the source code at src/retr.c around line 1151.