wget2 server-response

Hans Carlson via Primary discussion list for GNU Wget <[email protected]> Sun, 25 Aug 2024 11:02:18 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.wget.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I recently installed Fedora 40 and was a bit confused by the wget 
output... it seemed different.  After a bit of testing, I found the 
--server-response (-S) option didn't seem to work at all.  I downloaded 
the old wget (1.24.5), compiled and tested and got the results I expected.

Was the --server-response option not implemented in wget2 (it does show in 
the --help and man page).  Or is this a known bug?  Or am I doing 
something wrong?

See output for both wget2 and wget1 below.

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wget2 output

   $ /usr/bin/wget --version | head -n1
   GNU Wget2 2.1.0 - multithreaded metalink/file/website downloader
   $ /usr/bin/wget --server-response example.com
   index.html.2         100% [========================================================================================================================================================================================>]     648     --.-KB/s
                             [Files: 1  Bytes: 648  [35.15KB/s] Redirects: 0  Todo: 0  Errors: 0

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wget1 output

   $ /usr/local/bin/wget --version | head -n1
   GNU Wget 1.24.5 built on linux-gnu.
   $ /usr/local/bin/wget --server-response example.com
   --2024-08-25 10:24:12--  http://example.com/
   Resolving example.com (example.com)... 93.184.215.14, 2606:2800:21f:cb07:6820:80da:af6b:8b2c
   Connecting to example.com (example.com)|93.184.215.14|:80... connected.
   HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
     HTTP/1.1 200 OK
     Accept-Ranges: bytes
     Age: 254500
     Cache-Control: max-age=604800
     Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
     Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 17:24:12 GMT
     Etag: "3147526947+gzip"
     Expires: Sun, 01 Sep 2024 17:24:12 GMT
     Last-Modified: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 07:18:26 GMT
     Server: ECAcc (sed/58CB)
     Vary: Accept-Encoding
     X-Cache: HIT
     Content-Length: 1256
   Length: 1256 (1.2K) [text/html]
   Saving to: ‘index.html.3’

   index.html.3                                               100%[=======================================================================================================================================>]   1.23K  --.-KB/s    in 0s

   2024-08-25 10:24:12 (339 MB/s) - ‘index.html.3’ saved [1256/1256]