I'm using wget to mirror an old website with all of its
--page-requisites. Unfortunately, one of the domains which used to
serve some of these requisites - is now offline. Every time wget tries
to get anything from that domain, it blocks for 10+ seconds until the
connection finally times out.
This issue is substantially exacerbated by the 20 retries. I want to
keep the default retry count at 20, but I know this one particular
domain is never going to respond.
Is there a way to tell wget to ignore that domain entirely, i.e. not
try to fetch anything from there?
If not, can I at least apply different configurations to request from
that domain, for example specify 0 retries for it?
Otherwise, any other suggested solutions for this problem?
You can use the option --exclude-domains with wget to exclude specific domains.
From the man page of wget:
--exclude-domains domain-list
Specify the domains that are not to be followed.
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--exclude-domains. Did you try that?