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Description of problem:

I was trying to download a file with the command line tool
urlgrabber with no success:

# rpm -q python-urlgrabber
python-urlgrabber-3.9.1-6.el6.noarch
# mkdir /tmp/urlgrabber
# cd /tmp/urlgrabber/
# urlgrabber http://www.redhat.com/
# echo $?
0
# ls -l
total 0
# urlgrabber -o file.html http://www.redhat.com/
ERROR: cannot use -o when grabbing multiple files
# urlgrabber http://www.redhat.com/ file.html
[Errno 2] Local file does not exist: /tmp/urlgrabber/file.html
# ls -l
total 0

The tool works fine in RHEL5, although with a different syntax:
# rpm -q python-urlgrabber
python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-5.el5.noarch
# urlgrabber http://www.redhat.com/ file.html
file written to file.html
# ls -l
total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19900 Jun 16 11:14 file.html

There appears to be a couple of bugs here:

1. automatic filenames are broken for directories (eg. http://www.redhat.com/) it picks '' as the filename. You can still use: http://www.redhat.com/index.html.

2. Arg. checking for using -o with multiple args. is broken, -o X Y is counted as two download urls.

3. There's no long option for outputfile name.

4. urlgrabber tracebacks if you give it an option it doesn't recognize.

 
...I don't mind fixing all of them for 6.0, it's just I'm not sure how important they are testing functionality like:

urlgrabber -p http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Everything/i386/os/repodata/1bc00e0f693f21eea9cdf0837f78ad1ae04a1fab991e42103f98abd74d2b7d66-comps-f13.xml.gz

...works fine.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 is now available and should resolve
the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed
with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the
solution does not work for you.