There are other questions asking how to enable gzip compression with wget, and lots of web pages out there telling how to do this, but I need the opposite. I'm trying to locally mirror a site, and I'm just getting the home page as a gzipped file, which in turn breaks the recursion, so I can't get the whole site.
I can gunzip that file, but that still doesn't give me a recursive download of the whole cotton-pickin' site.
How do I turn off or prevent gzipping?
EDIT: The exact command I issued is
wget --random-wait -r -p -e robots=off -U mozilla http://www.example.com --reject png,jpg,jpeg,gif --progress=dot --wait=7
wget
does recursive downloading on its own, and I've never seen it togzip
(or otherwise pack) anything. Exactly what commands are you issuing? You might need to edit out parts of the URL for privacy, edit that into the question.