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I need some documentation about XUL but I do not have Internet access most of the time. So, I've tried to download the Mozilla Tutorial with the following command:

wget --no-parent -r -l 2 -p -k https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL_Tutorial

My intention was to download both the https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL_Tutorial page and its subpages (for example, https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL_Tutorial/Install_Scripts). However, even though I passed the --no-parent flag, it keeps getting pages such as https://developer.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&returntotitle=en%2FXUL+Tutorial%2FInstall+Scripts.

I do not understand why it happens. How could I achieve the behavior I intended?

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You need the trailing slash at the end of the URL.

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I tried wget --no-parent -r -l 2 -p -k https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL_Tutorial/ but it only download the index.html file... – brandizzi Sep 15 '11 at 13:13
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I had to disable gzip compression to make it work. I also changed the user-agent because some pages forbid wget. So this is what I've put into my .wgetrc:

header = Accept-Encoding: none

user_agent = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6

Works great here.

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