wget - different behaviors

[nhtrader]

1. wget works fine within perl script.
2. wget works ok on command line in terminal mode, but the results are different.


I use '/usr/bin/wget' regularly without any problems within perl scripts and I am using the '-p' option to retrieve all webpage prerequisites.

However, when I use the same command in terminal mode the result/output is different.

Does anyone know why wgets behavior changes depending on its environment?

Here's the perl code that works. I am able to fetch an entire webpage except for graphics, which I have rejected/excluded.

$flnm="sample.htm";
$url="anyurlyouwant.com";

Open (WP, "|wget -T 10 -p -R \"gif\" -O $flnm $url") or die "Can't Fetch: $url\n";
close(WP);

Now in terminal mode use the same options but I can't fetch the webpage:
wget -T 10 -p -R "gif" -O "sample.htm" "anyurlyouwant.com"

or if I reduce the options down to:

wget -p -O "sample.htm" "anyurlyouwant.com"

The prerequisite option '-p' doesn't perform in the same manner as it did within perl. Why?

Are there two different wget configuration files lying around? Where are they?

[jankushka]

Re: wget - different behaviors

don't know.
but this is what the man page (man wget) says:

...
FILES
/etc/wgetrc
Default location of the global startup file.

.wgetrc
User startup file.
...