[MLUG - DISCUSSION] Re: HTML problem with "<base href=" and "<a name="

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I tried some options in wget that seemed to promise to work (according to 
the man page) but they did not work.  For example, use of -k option did 
not link properly to style sheets.

Mike


On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Mike Miller wrote:

> If you download a web page using wget, say, and insert in the header 
> something like
>
> <base href="http://en.wikipedia.org";>
>
> That line helps a great deal because now almost all of the links in the 
> file will work.  It finds style sheets and it looks good.  The only 
> remaining problem is that the original document had some links of this 
> form:
>
> <a href="#whatever">
>
> These are meant to link to the part of the file that contains this 
> tag...
>
> <a name="whatever">
>
> ...but the change of base href effectively transforms them into this:
>
> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/#whatever";>
>
> And that doesn't do anything.
>
> So, what's the best way of dealing with this?  The only way I can see to 
> make it work is to not use base href and to search for every relative 
> link in the file and change it so that it points to the correct page. 
> That is a bit annoying and I probably won't do it because I don't care 
> that much that the few name links don't work.
>
> Know any good tricks?  Maybe there is an option in wget to make it do 
> this. I want it to use the remote site for CSS, etc. -- I don't want to 
> download all of that (I know how to make wget do that).
>
> Mike

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