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9.2 Reporting Bugs

You are welcome to send bug reports about Wget to the author's email address, hniksic@srce.hr or to the mailing list at wget@sunsite.auc.dk. Please try to follow a few simple guidelines before sending it.

  1. Please try to ascertain that the behaviour you see really is a bug. If Wget crashes, it's a bug. If Wget does not behave as documented, it's a bug. If things work strange, but you are not sure about the way they are supposed to work, it might well be a bug.
  2. Try to repeat the bug in as simple circumstances as possible. E.g. if Wget crashes on `wget -rLl0 -t5 -Y0 http://yoyodine.com -o /tmp/log', you should try to see if it will crash with a reduced argument list.
  3. Please start Wget with `-d' option and send the log (or the relevant parts of it). If Wget was compiled without debug support, recompile it. It is much easier to trace bugs with bug support on.
  4. If Wget has crashed, try to run it in a debugger, e.g. gdb `which wget` core and type where to get the backtrace.
  5. Find where the bug is, fix it and send me the patches. :-)


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