(From the mailing list:)

Hi

I've been using wget to recursively download the output of a CGI
script on a server, together with any documents linked to by the
output of that CGI script - and then to use -k to create a locally
linked version.

Due to the length of data sent to the CGI script, wget needs to be
invoked with --post-file

It seems that wget sends this post data to all the URLs it recursively
downloads - not just the base URL. Unfortunately this stings me
somewhat, as one of the webservers I need to download the linked files
from refuses post requests. (Even if I can get this changed, it seems
wrong to be sending post requests designed for one page to another
one)

Is there any way to get wget to only use the post data for the first
file downloaded? I couldn't find any in the documentation - in fact
there seems to be nothing in the documentation regarding the
interaction of recursive downloading with post data. It would be great
to see the current behaviour documented somewhere.

Alternatively, if anyone can suggest any workarounds, that'd be much
appreciated. I need to convert the links, so just downloading the
first file using post, and then using that as wget's input (using -i)
won't work.

Stuart Moore