Re: Wget using backquotes

[andyford]

Looks like wget is putting the response code into STDERR. I did this

$response = `wget --spider -nv $url 2>&1`;

And got the code into $response.

As for the varying return codes, it probably means that the server you're hitting is not able to respond properly everytime. Maybe it's overloaded, or purposely throttling you. Could be many things.

[Anonymous Monk]

Thank you! the 2>&1 did the trick for me!