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Is Wget really a FTP client ? It can get from a ftp server but I think it cannot put a file on the server Arno. 12:29, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

No mention of FTP upload as a feature[1] in 1.8.1 manual. But I think could still call it an FTP client, although not a very full featured one. I'm not a fan of categories anyway though. --Pmsyyz 18:30, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wget is an FTP client in that it talks to FTP servers via the FTP protocol. It doesn't support upload, but it doesn't upload to HTTP either.

I've restored the "FTP clients" category because Wget really is an FTP client. I've removed the "Download managers" category because it's not really a download manager in the sense of GetRight, FlashGet and such. It is more of a one-shot downloading/mirroring agent. Hniksic 16:35, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Please don't change the case of the title (and of the occurrences of "Wget" in the page) to lower-case "wget". The program's name is "Wget" or "GNU Wget", with the first letter in upper-case. The entire Info and Man documentation and the web page confirm this. The title of this page is not an example of wikipedia's technical limitation. The only reason why the actual Unix executable is called "wget" is because Unix executables, by convention, consist of all-lowercase letters.

I don't think wget is a ftp client! Because the Chinese Great Fire Wall will not block anything via ftp. What it only do is to block something via http.
If you try to retrieve something , such as ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/gvim70.exe, via wget(in the main land of China , of course), you will certainly be frustrated.
But if you employ a real ftp client such as lftp, then you will probably get what you want, ignoring the Great Fire Wall.

The article should mentions the behavior of wget if executed from the command line when the present directory is not an empty folder: By default if there are no options then it will try to avoid overwriting existing files. If the commonly used -r (--recursive) option, the -p (--page-requisite) option, or the -O (--output=) option is used, then it may ovewrite existing files! Recursive use (the -r option) may also cause wget to ascend into a higher directory (definitely not desired; can be suppressed with the -np or --no-parent option). Finally, to overwrite the existing file when the downloaded file has a newer timestamp, use -N, and to avoid overwriting files at all, use the -nc (which stands for “--no-clobber”) option, for example

 wget -nc http://example.com.

108.31.167.36 (talk) 19:44, 7 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Reference? - Ahunt (talk) 23:29, 7 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]