[mdlug] Evil URLs at OpenSuSE

[Raymond McLaughlin]

David Favro wrote:

> Maybe try replacing it with the escaped ASCII code like:
> 
> http://software.opensuse.org/download/X11%3A/xfce/SUSE_Linux_10.0/i586/
> 
>>From RFC1738:
> <BLOCKQUOTE>
> In addition, octets may be encoded by a character triplet consisting of the character "%" followed by the two hexadecimal digits (from "0123456789ABCDEF") which forming the hexadecimal value of the octet.
> </BLOCKQUOTE>

Thanks for the suggestion.
    wget -r \
http://software.opensuse.org/download/X11%3A/xfce/SUSE_Linux_10.0/i586/

still goes crazy. Before I stopped it this command had pulled down 1170
files in 226 directories. I just wanted to avoid the "right click and
select save as" drudgery 50 time for 50 files to get these files. The
files I wanted were included in the haul, I just can't figure out why I
was getting all that extra stuff.

Raymond McLaughlin