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2001-04-01 Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@arsdigita.com>
* wget.texi (Recursive Retrieval Options): Document more
accurately what --convert-links does.
2001-03-27 Dan Harkless <wget@harkless.org>
* Makefile.in: Moved top_builddir out of "User configuration

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@cindex link conversion
@item -k
@itemx --convert-links
Convert the non-relative links to relative ones locally. Only the
references to the documents actually downloaded will be converted; the
rest will be left unchanged.
After the download is complete, convert the links in the document to
make them suitable for local viewing. This affects not only the visible
hyperlinks, but any part of the document that links to external content,
such as embedded images, links to style sheets, hyperlinks to non-HTML
content, etc.
Each link will be changed in one of the two ways:
@itemize @bullet
@item
The links to files that have been downloaded by Wget will be changed to
refer to the file they point to as a relative link.
Example: if the downloaded file @file{/foo/doc.html} links to
@file{/bar/img.gif}, also downloaded, then the link in @file{doc.html}
will be modified to point to @samp{../bar/img.gif}. This kind of
transformation works reliably for arbitrary combinations of directories.
@item
The links to files that have not been downloaded by Wget will be changed
to include host name and absolute path of the location they point to.
Example: if the downloaded file @file{/foo/doc.html} links to
@file{/bar/img.gif} (or to @file{../bar/img.gif}), then the link in
@file{doc.html} will be modified to point to
@file{http://@var{hostname}/bar/img.gif}.
@end itemize
Because of this, local browsing works reliably: if a linked file was
downloaded, the link will refer to its local name; if it was not
downloaded, the link will refer to its full Internet address rather than
presenting a broken link. The fact that the former links are converted
to relative links ensures that you can move the downloaded hierarchy to
another directory.
Note that only at the end of the download can Wget know which links have
been downloaded. Because of that, much of the work done by @samp{-k}
will be performed at the end of the downloads.
been downloaded. Because of that, the work done by @samp{-k} will be
performed at the end of all the downloads.
@cindex backing up converted files
@item -K