Hey Emacs, this is -*- outline -*- mode
-This is the to-do list for Wget. There is no timetable of when we plan to
-implement these features -- this is just a list of things it'd be nice to see in
-Wget. Patches to implement any of these items would be gladly accepted. The
-items are not listed in any particular order (except that recently-added items
-may tend towards the top). Not all of these represent user-visible
-changes.
-
-* -p should probably go "_two_ more hops" on <FRAMESET> pages.
-
-* Only normal link-following recursion should respect -np. Page-requisite
- recursion should not. When -np -p is specified, Wget should still retrieve
- requisite images and such on the server, even if they aren't in that directory
- or a subdirectory of it. Likewise, -H -np -p should retrieve requisite files
- from other hosts.
+This is the to-do list for Wget. There is no timetable of when we
+plan to implement these features -- this is just a list of features
+we'd like to see in Wget, as well as a list of problems that need
+fixing. Patches to implement these items are likely to be accepted.
+The items are not listed in any particular order (except that
+recently-added items may tend towards the top). Not all of these
+represent user-visible changes.
+
+* Should allow retries with multiple downloads when using -O on
+ regular files. As the source comment says: "A possible solution to
+ [rewind not working with multiple downloads] would be to remember
+ the file position in the output document and to seek to that
+ position, instead of rewinding."
+
+* Wget shouldn't delete rejected files that were not downloaded, but
+ just found on disk because of `-nc'. For example, `wget -r -nc
+ -A.gif URL' should allow the user to get all the GIFs without
+ removing any of the existing HTML files.
+
+* Be careful not to lose username/password information given for the
+ URL on the command line.
+
+* Support FWTK firewalls. It should work like this: if ftp_proxy is
+ set to an ftp URL, Wget should assume the use of an FWTK firewall.
+ It should connect to the proxy URL, log in as username@target-site,
+ and continue as usual.
* Add a --range parameter allowing you to explicitly specify a range of bytes to
get from a file over HTTP (FTP only supports ranges ending at the end of the
* Try to devise a scheme so that, when password is unknown, Wget asks
the user for one.
-* Limit the number of successive redirection to max. 20 or so.
-
* If -c used with -N, check to make sure a file hasn't changed on the server
before "continuing" to download it (preventing a bogus hybrid file).