[Linux-disciples] Relative links from wget recursive retrievals

[Stephen R Laniel]

I'm downloading a website recursively for work, and I'm running
into a problem: it's saving relative links correctly, which means
the linked pages don't load properly.

E.g., one of the relative links is to '/whatsnew'. That's
http://foo.com/whatsnew on the website, but it's
c:\foo\a\b\c\d\whatsnew on my hard drive. When I try to open
'/whatsnew' on my hard drive, my browser looks for something in
c:\whatsnew.

So basically: is there a way to make my browser or wget or
*someone* use a different directory as the root for relative
links?

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