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 Reporting Bugs
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    You are welcome to send bug reports about GNU Wget to
 <bug-wget@gnu.org>.
 
    Before actually submitting a bug report, please try to follow a few
 simple guidelines.
 
   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 while downloading `wget -rl0 -kKE -t5 -Y0
      http://yoyodyne.com -o /tmp/log', you should try to see if the
      crash is repeatable, and if will occur with a simpler set of
      options.  You might even try to start the download at the page
      where the crash occurred to see if that page somehow triggered the
      crash.
 
      Also, while I will probably be interested to know the contents of
      your `.wgetrc' file, just dumping it into the debug message is
      probably a bad idea.  Instead, you should first try to see if the
      bug repeats with `.wgetrc' moved out of the way.  Only if it turns
      out that `.wgetrc' settings affect the bug, mail me the relevant
      parts of the file.
 
   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 debug 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.
 

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