hello dudes in here, ladies too (if any).

Just got an issue with my Suse Linux 9.1 gateway.
Recently it had wget working well but I went on a working leave outa office & on returning, I cannot use it. Tells me 'Unsupported scheme' whenever I try to download any files using it. (wget -b url)Seems someone screwed things up but they cannot tell me exactly who or what.
What could be the problem and how can I go over it?
I tried re-installing wget from the CDs but same issue persisted.
Hope you guys understand my question & come to my help.
Thanks & kind regards

on 11/30/05 at 08:11:36, edmonds wrote:

hello dudes in here, ladies too (if any).

The majority of people who work for Well House Consultants (who run this site) are ladies  

With "wget" a scheme is perhaps referring to a security of login scheme, but I suspect that the problem you're having is partly being hidden by your backgrounding of the request. As a first step in an analysis, I would try running wget without the -b option and look in the screen output for further clues.

By the way - I'm wondering if the problem you're having may relate to a proxy server being configured / added between your system and your wget target, rather than any change to your own system.  Just an extra thought.

thanks for your input
I tried without the background option & the same thing happened.
What else could it be other than another proxy set-up?
Thanks.

You are giving it a valid protocol in the URL, aren't you?

Code:

[trainee@dandelion ~]$ wget htpp://www.wellho.net/robots.txt htpp://www.wellho.net/robots.txt: Unsupported scheme. [trainee@dandelion ~]$

... Problem caused by me typing in htpp not http ....

I appreciate Graham your input.
So you think the problem could be with the url I fed in after the wget command.
Maybe, maybe not. You know I'm not in the office & donot feel like hitting into it now but just want to get a couple of possibilities which could have cause the 'unsupported scheme' error so that when I settle in, I have a start. So far you've gotten me two options.
One calls for trying out different download options, which I didnot try when what I wanted failed; and the other is checking the url which is 'unsupported.'
Thanks, I could do with more though.

on 12/01/05 at 04:47:03, edmonds wrote:

I'm not in the office & donot feel like hitting into it now but just want to get a couple of possibilities which could have cause the 'unsupported scheme' error so that when I settle in, I have a start. So far you've gotten me two options. [snip] Thanks, I could do with more though.

I would suggest you try the two options already suggested before we give you more.  

The forum works on a question and answer approach.  Please don't an expert to write a complete book on something because you don't feel like trying out what he's already suggested - if he's got it right, you're wasting his time .... and whether he's got it right or not, you're likely to be offending him by telling him that his time is expendable / cheap and you can't be bothered to follow through.

Being nu in here had me on the wall, I've learnt the rules!
This morning I went to office to try out the options Graham told me to.
OOPPS, no single url works; at all for the wget command.
AND, I have just got to know that even the linx (internet browsing on command-line) command doesnot work either. Seems like someone could have blocked a port or so.
Can someone bail me out?
Thanks, & kind regards.

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