[wget-notify] [bug #23658] --base documentation is incorrect

[Micah Cowan]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?23658>

                 Summary: --base documentation is incorrect
                 Project: GNU Wget
            Submitted by: micahcowan
            Submitted on: Friday 06/20/2008 at 16:21
                Category: Documentation
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: Confirmed
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: None
        Operating System: None
         Reproducibility: None
           Fixed Release: None
         Planned Release: 1.12
              Regression: None
           Work Required: None
          Patch Included: None

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Details:


`-B URL'
`--base=URL'
     Prepends URL to relative links read from the file specified with
     the `-i' option.


This is incorrect (at least for FTP URLs, but probably for all).

  --base=ftp://micah.cowan.name/pub/ditty

doesn't prepend ftp://micah.cowan.name/pub/ditty, it prepends
ftp://micah.cowan.name/pub. IOW, it acts just like that value had been found
in an HTML "base" element.




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