Re: wget asp pages recursively?

[shaulka@bezeqint.net]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 10:54:15PM -0400, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 05:19:19AM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> > I'd like to download a sequence of pages which are produced by someone's 
> > asp application so that I may read them while I am offline.
> > 
> > Is there a parameter to wget that will allow me to do this?
> > 
> > The URL for the first page is something like
> > 
> > http://www.something.com/junk.asp&thepageIwant=1
> > 
> > I can use the "--html-extension" to cause the page I download to have a 
> > .html extension, so my web browsers know what to do with the file.  
> > However, I don't seem to be able to get wget to follow the link within that 
> > page to the next page, because the link is given as a parameter to an asp 
> > application.  That is, there is HTML like this:
> > 
> > <p>Click the following to go to the
> > <a href="http://www.something.com/junk.asp&thepageIwant=2";>next 
> > page</a>.</p>
> > 
> > What I need is for wget to understand that stuff following an "&" in a URL 
> > indicates that it's a distinctly different page, and it should go 
> > recursively retrieve it.  The --recursive option doesn't seem to help.
> > 
> > Any help you can give me is appreciated.
> 
> I use a sequence I learned off the Linux Journal site:
>     wget -m -L -t 5 -w 5 http://somplace.com/some.asp&page=1
> 


Can you tell what context this sequence appeared in on the site?
Can you give an approximate URL for where you got the sequence from?
I want to read it myself, hopping to learn something.

  Thank you.


> When I've done so and encountered asp or cgi pages, it has done just
> fine -- the -m tag does recursion, infinite depth, and some url
> extensions.
> 
> --Matthew
> 
> 
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