[PATCH] wget creates empty file

[Ulf Samuelsson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thaddeus Ternes" <tternes at gmail.com>
To: <busybox at busybox.net>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 10:54 PM
Subject: [PATCH] wget creates empty file


> Currently, wget will create an empty file when it fails to make a
> connection to a valid host.  Here's an example of the bug:
> 
> /tmp # wget http://localhost:100/fake.html
> Connecting to localhost[127.0.0.1]:100
> wget: Unable to connect to remote host (127.0.0.1): Connection refused
> /tmp # ls -l fake.html
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Sep 22 15:46 fake.html
> 
> I've included a patch that should fix this.  Any comments are welcomed.
> 
> -Thaddeus
> 


I think that a nice addition, would be to have a list of alternative hosts
in a ".wgetrc" file, which should be tried if the original hosts fails
to deliver the wanted file.



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