Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 223754
wget --mirror fails to retrieve files on FTP site
Last modified: 2016-03-22 09:15:25 EDT
Description of problem: wget fails to retrieve files from FTP servers with the --mirror option. It occurs on authenticated FTP sites and anonymous ones, with or without a trailing directory path. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): wget.i386 1.10.2-3.3.fc5 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. wget -d --mirror ftp://filearena.net/pub/ubcd/3.4/ Actual results: Successfully logs in, gets a directory listing, stores it in Unix 'ls -l' format, but does not retrieve any of the files. Expected results: Should download files and continue process for subdirectories recursively. Additional info: Independant of type of FTP server (only Unix based ones were tried, however).
Created attachment 146154 [details] wget session log with debugging
I can confirm it is also buggy on Fedora Core 6 (pkg:wget-1.10.2-8.fc6.1).
I confirm this problem as well, this has happened in the last wget-1.10.2-8 only, so on of the fixes resulting in this recursive feature to not work anymore in FTP mode. - fix bugzilla #218211 - fix bugzilla #186195 - fix bugzilla #205723 Needs fixed please. Elevate priority.
can you please test wget-1.10.2-15 from rawhide and reopen if this bug still exists ?
I'm sorry, but where is rawhide? The only version I could find is wget-1.10.2- 14.fc2 from February 5th 2006. Also I couldn't install it because I couldn't find the dependency rtld(GNU_HASH).
There's currently a problem with the rawhide build scripts, a new tree will be published when that's resolved. As for the dependency problems: get the SRPM and run rpmbuild --rebuilt SRPM-filename. This takes care of the dependencies and rebuilds the package with the libraries on your system.
I can confirm this fixes it for me on FC6 - tested with "wget -r -l2 -P/tmp ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/" from the wget man page. With wget-1.10.2-8 this retrieves the .listing and exits, with wget-1.10.2-15 it downloads the other files too.
Tried on FC4 and FC5 and worked fine after re-compiling 1.10.2-15.