wget error message parsing.

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Friday 11 July 2008 17:25, Alex Owen wrote:
> Hi there, Thanks for your response.
> 
> I had done some checking and done a binary chop search of svn to find
> when the code had changed, and looked at the latest released tag in
> svn. I purposefully did not submit a bug report as I thought a
> discussion would be nore usefull and it proves it was as you have made
> me think again! Thanks!
> 
> Looking again at rfc2616 section 6.2 I see that it is only the last
> part of the string that is server dependant
> 
> My parsing code can therefore look for:
> "server returned error: HTTP/1.1 404"

Or better "HTTP/nums_and_dots 404"

> The "Not Found" is not mandatory according to the RFC.
> 
> I know know what I need to submitt to the debian installer as a patch.

Wait a second. What is "debian installer"? Are you saying
there is some part of Debian distribution
which works with normal wget but fails with busybox wget?
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