Re: wget claims "Success" when it failed to write to local directory

[Andries E. Brouwer]

Hi Tim,

That reminds me of some earlier discussion, see
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2021-05/msg00012.html

I rechecked wget 1.21.4, and it still gives Cannot write to ‘<dir>’ (Success).
I suppose the same analysis still applies.

Andries


On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 07:22:25PM +0200, Tim Rühsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> do you run the latest wget (1.21.4)?
> 
> With that version, you get a
> 
>   Cannot write to 'index.html' (Permission denied).
> 
> Regards, Tim
> 
> On 10/21/23 17:16, Christian Rosentreter wrote:
> > 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > There's a minor cosmetic bug in wget 1.x where it claims "Success" when it 
> > in fact entirely failed to write to the local
> > disk, e.g. because of missing permissions/ write access to the current 
> > directory. The return code is "3" however, so it's
> > basically only the message that it prints on screen that is funny in a 
> > suspicious way:
> > 
> > 
> > ### Prepare situation…
> > $ mkdir foobar
> > $ chmod -w foobar   # remove write access
> > $ cd foobar
> > 
> > 
> > ### Note: the "Permission denied" and "Cannot write to" messages, but we
> > ###       get a "(Success)" anyway:
> > $ wget https://www.christianrosentreter.com/
> > --2023-10-21 17:05:35--  https://www.christianrosentreter.com/
> > Resolving www.christianrosentreter.com (www.christianrosentreter.com)... 
> > 85.13.142.16
> > Connecting to www.christianrosentreter.com 
> > (www.christianrosentreter.com)|85.13.142.16|:443... connected.
> > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> > Length: unspecified [text/html]
> > index.html: Permission denied
> > 
> > Cannot write to 'index.html' (Success).
> > 
> > 
> > ### The return code seems to be reasonable though:
> > $ echo $?
> > 3
> > 
> > 
> > ### Version tested:
> > $ wget --version
> > GNU Wget 1.21.4 built on darwin14.5.0.
> > 
> > +cares +digest -gpgme +https +ipv6 +iri +large-file +metalink -nls
> > +ntlm +opie +psl +ssl/openssl
> > 
> > …cut…
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >