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bug #50516: domain.com vs www.domain.com site duplication

Submitter:  Ages Ayemtwo <ages2500>
Submitted:  Sat 11 Mar 2017 08:01:57 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Feature Request Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Status:  None
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  Open
Release:  None Operating System:  None
Reproducibility:  None Fixed Release:  None
Planned Release:  None Regression:  None
Work Required:  None Patch Included:  No
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Mon 13 Mar 2017 09:53:08 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Sounds like someone messed up his website setups(s) ;-)

Almost every site does it this way (properly):
Setup all on www.domain.com and redirect domain.com to www.domain.com.

This kind of mess also isn't limited to two sites, but could involve 3, 4, ... N sites, even having complex relationships (owner, content, cookies, referer). Not easily solvable from a client's view.

I would like to hear some more voices on this. If not, I'll close this as WONTFIX.

Tim Ruehsen <rockdaboot>
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Sat 11 Mar 2017 08:01:57 PM UTC, original submission:  

When retrieving http://www.domain.com/, the site author may link a file to domain.com, without the www. This also occurs when the opposite is true.

Either scenario results in the website being downloaded twice, creating a hapazard mesh of file links between:

/domain.com/

and

/www.domain.com/

It also means that 404 pages will link to http://domain.com/ in the html of files of one folder, and http://www.domain.com/ in the other.

If one were to overlook the local mess this creates, it still puts extra strain on a large wget process by crawling and downloading near twice as much data than it needs to.

Restricting the site to -D www.domain.com runs the risk of missing data. To ensure I get all of the data from the domain in question, I use -D domain.com.

It would be nice for an extra flag to treat domain.com and www.domain.com content the same in wget, and store the content in the same folder without content duplication.

I am not requesting that this feature be a default function, but rather an additional flag/feature that treats www.domain.com and domain.com as coming from the same domain.

The following URL will exhibit this behavior in wget:


wget -rkE -np -l inf -D runequake.com http://www.runequake.com/



Ages Ayemtwo <ages2500>

 

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