[lug] wget question

[John Hernandez]

It should work if you use an absolute path, provided the server does 
not perform a chroot:

ftp://user:password@host/home/MYFILE

D. Stimits wrote:
> Jim Buzbee wrote:
> 
>>Anyone have expertise with wget ?
>>
>>I've been trying to convince wget to fetch a file for me without much
>>luck. I'm using an ftp url with embedded username and password. e.g. :
>>
>>ftp://user:password@host/
>>
>>My problem is that the file I want to get is one directory above the
>>login directory, i.e. ftp://user:password@host/../MYFILE - But wget
>>seems to ignore the .. path.  If I interactively ftp in, I can get the
>>file without issue so it's not any sort of permission problem.
> 
> 
> I would have to wonder about the ".." in the path, it is a relative
> path. The above URL is not legit in most cases, it says to go to the ftp
> root (usually "/" unless it is a chroot environment, in which case ".."
> must be ignored or else allow the session to exit the chroot jail
> environment) and then to the parent of the ftp root...which is outside
> of the ftp space. I would double check that the ".." is legitimate, wget
> is probably doing the right thing. My guess is that manual login is
> tolerant of error, and wget stops when it sees the error (as it should).
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
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