Mark:
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Re: On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Mark Willson wrote:
-> > - Using the gw -o option on one of my sites, I hit an (old) link that
-> > references a now non-existent host. When I was running gw, it would
-> > get to this link, try to access that page, and die. I tried
-> > re-running it as gw -o -xhttp://old-bad-link-URL http://my-site-URL
-> > but it still tried to access that same page and died. I corrected
-> > that link on my offending page, but why didn't gw just mark this
-> > as a non-retrievable page (especially with the -xhttp://... option)
-> > and proceed?
-> It should just skip it and continue. Can you supply the specific URL?
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gw was dying for me on attempting to retrieve
http://sentry.k12net.net/spinner/
FWIW, ping returns an unknown host mssg to 'ping sentry.k12net.net'
geturl returns an error mssg referencing gethostbyname and saying it
can't connect.
Thanks again, Layne
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