I've been using wget to download a site - one of the things that's bothering me about it, is that it's 'reject' option _first_ downloads a page, and then deletes it.

With this particular site, pretty much every page is reproduced multiple times - with CGI urls (e.g. page.html?thread=2012 or post.html?mode=reply).

I'm sure that I do not want all these, but wget is quite insistent that I must download them and then delete them.

So I was wondering - could anyone point me in the right direction for solving this problem - recursive http download, using cookies, and giving me capability to filter URLs before download. (Or coalesce the duplicates). And ideally, allow me to 'skip' anything that I've already got downloaded, by allowing comparing with an on disk structure. (rsync style)

I'd be thinking something along the lines of File::Find, but for HTTP. Before I charge off re-inventing the wheel, does such a beast exist?

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