Re: [Bug-wget] Retry on host error

[Tim Rühsen]

Congrats your patch has been pushed, though I detected a small issue
right after that (fixed now).

And don't you think --tries should be considered ?

Regards, Tim

On 12.06.2018 20:53, Tim Rühsen wrote:
> Hi Elliot,
> 
> thanks for your contribution.
> 
> I'll care for the integration / merge tomorrow.
> 
> We maintainers decided to accept your work without the FSF Copyright
> Assignment from you (will be tagged as Copyright-paperwork-exempt).
> 
> Let us know if you plan to work on more and we'll send you the FSF
> Assignment. It is not much work from your side.
> 
> Regards, Tim
> 
> On 11.06.2018 05:52, Elliot Chandler wrote:
>> Dear Wget,
>>
>> Based on the changes in commit
>> d6d00006a0c446f91a005d44ab72eb956c58ad2d, I have made a patch,
>> attached, to add an option to retry on host errors.
>>
>> It has been requested a few times (links at end of email), and just
>> now it frustrated me, so I think it is a good option to have.
>>
>> The patch does not affect the default behavior.
>>
>> Thank you for your consideration!
>>
>> —Elliot
>>
>>
>> P. S.: Links to show value of patch, where this has been requested and
>> impractical workarounds suggested instead:
>>
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30983511/wget-force-retry-until-there-is-a-connection
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=202956
>>
>> https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1397043
>>
>

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