[ale] wget oddity grabbing pages with URL parameters

[pras at cycloeastern.com]

Dont know why that happens. However I have noticed that it also does not translate %20 to spaces.

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:41:56AM -0500, George Carless wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having a little strange behaviour with wget... I'm trying to grab some pages from our 
> CMS-based intranet site, using the following:
> 
> wget -nH -r --level=1 -I valuemap --directory-prefix=/home/httpd/oursite/ http://oursite.com/valuemap/index.html
> 
> The problem is, it's grabbing all of the pages, BUT when it does so it seems not to be grabbing any 
> pages properly when they're in the format index.html?_function=detail&_op=1234 (which is what my 
> CMS uses in this case).  The pages ARE downloaded--I wind up with a bunch of files with the 
> appropriate file names, but each one has the content of the MAIN index.html as it would return if 
> no url parameters were passed.  (i.e. my app returns different content depending on the value of 
> $_GET["_function"], in PHP terminology).
> 
> BUT if I wget the pages manually - e.g. "wget 
> http://oursite.com/valuemap/index.html?_function=detail\&_op=1234" - the page is returned 
> correctly.
> 
> Any of you smart folks have any idea what might be happening here?
> 
> Thanks,
> --George
> 
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