9. Appendices

This chapter contains some references I consider useful.

9.1 Robots    Wget as a WWW robot.

9.2 Security Considerations    Security with Wget.

9.3 Contributors    People who helped.

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9.1 Robots

It is extremely easy to make Wget wander aimlessly around a web site, sucking all the available data in progress. `wget -r site', and you're set. Great? Not for the server admin.

While Wget is retrieving static pages, there's not much of a problem. But for Wget, there is no real difference between the smallest static page and the hardest, most demanding

9.1 Robots		Wget as a WWW robot.
9.2 Security Considerations		Security with Wget.
9.3 Contributors		People who helped.