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I suppose you can't list the directory on the webserver. wget is getting information about the contents of the directory you want to download from its web listing. If that is not allowed (403: Forbidden), then wget can't download the files. Of course, I may be wrong

Shade 2010-06-28 09:41:55

but if i specify the image name in the url as :http://abc.com/Image/images/abc.gif then i am able to download this images and same for other images in the folder.But when trying to get the whole folder it is giving error.

ha22109 2010-06-28 10:05:07

Indeed. You see, when you give a direct URL as a parameter, then wget has all the information needed to download that file. But a directory name does not give information about its contents. So, when you pass wget a directory name, it requests that directory (as if it is a file). When one requests a directory from a webserver, the webserver tries to serve a listing of that directory if an index.html (or other index file) is not present. Since that is not allowed on this webserver, wget doesn't get a listing and doesn't know what to download.

Shade 2010-06-28 11:54:22

Answer 2

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This is not possible.

wget cannot know which files exist on the remote server.

Instead, if the server has directory browsing enabled, or if the images are linked somewhere, you can crawl some other page.

SLaks 2010-06-28 18:30:45

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If you know names (you have to, if the remote dir is not "open" and the content can't be listed), consider having them into a file and use a for or while (in bash or powershell or what you have) or similar; if the names follow a "pattern", consider using curl instead, with it you can do things like

curl http://asdf.com/what/ever/image/img[00-99].gif -o img#1.gif

to download images with names img00.gif, img01.gif and so on.

ShinTakezou 2010-06-28 18:33:32

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