Sender: rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk Message-ID: <3AF6D9C2.E6F498A@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 18:22:10 +0100 From: Richard Dawe X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17 i586) X-Accept-Language: de,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Fileutils 4.0 beta 2 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Hello. Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Wget automatically appends ":80" to the host name, to use port 80; > perhaps that is the problem? If so, what is the right port? > > On Mon, 7 May 2001, Richard Dawe wrote: > > My ISP uses virtual hosting, so "phekda" is actually mapped onto some > > other host. I wonder if you are using an old version of Netscape that > > does not support this (the HTTP Host header) - it seems unlikely > > though. > > My problem was not with Netscape--that worked fine--the problem was with > Wget. You've jogged my memory now. I just looked at an e-mail discussion I had a while back with someone else who had a problem using wget with my web pages. We decided in the end that there was a bug in the caching software used by my ISP - my home pages are accessed via some caching software. I suppose the real server is behind this cache. I posted a message to the Unix support group for my ISP, but got no help from my ISP. Someone agreed with me that it was a bug, though. I just tried using wget and it worked for me. I'm baffled why it works for me. Which version of wget are you using? I have 1.5.3, but 1.6 is out. I wonder if the newer version works better. Alternatively you could use curl instead. That works pretty well. Bye, Rich =] -- Richard Dawe http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/