Wget storing files with question marks
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Problem
I'm trying to download a static mirror of a php website, using wget. Wget however, uses the urls as filenames, e.g.:
index.php?foo=bar
Now when I try to view this file with a webbrowser, the browser has problems interpreting this file as a static HTML file; the browser sees the file above as a php file `index.php' with argument `foo=bar'.
Environment
- wget-1.12
Solution
wget -r --adjust-extension --convert-links 'http://example.com/index.php?foo=bar'
Option --adjust-extension makes wget save the PHP files with a .html extension.
Option --convert-links makes wget convert the links in the downloaded files to the newly created .html files. Note that this conversion takes place after all files have been downloaded.
See also
- lighttpd - How to serve a wget --mirror'ed directory of files with questionmarks in them - Server Fault
- Same problem. User wants to solve the problem by tweaking a local webserver so that it can serve filenames with question marks.
