[BusyBox] wget problem

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

Tom Walker <twalker at world-net.net> wrote:
>I've been trying to get wget to work, but always get an error message as
>follows: "wget: not an http or ftp url: 192.168.144.1:default.htm" in
>response to entering "wget 192.168.144.1/default.htm". I've tried using
>three kernel versions (2.2.14, 2.2.19, 2.4.7) , uClibc-0.9.18,
>libc-2.2.4, busybox-unstable, and busybox-0.60.5 with the same result.
>Downloaded wget-1.8.2 and wget-1.6 and both work properly under uClibc
>and GNU libc using the above syntax. Can someone tell me what I'm
>missing here?

Add http:// or ftp:// in front of the URL depending on whatever URL you
really mean - wget cannot guess that.
In theory one could assume http as a default, but in practise the 
protocol is a necessary and wuite important part of a URL.

	Bernd
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