items are not listed in any particular order. Not all of them represent
user-visible changes.
+* --retr-symlinks should cause wget to traverse links to directories too.
+
+* Lots of noncompliant webservers issue HTTP redirects to relative URLs, and
+ browsers follow them, so wget should too.
+
+* Make wget return non-zero status in more situations, like incorrect HTTP auth.
+
+* Timestamps are sometimes not copied over on files retrieved by FTP.
+
* Wget does not currently handle "fragment identifiers" (the part of a URL
starting with the '#' character) properly.
* Make `-k' check for files that were downloaded in the past and convert links
to them in newly-downloaded documents.
-* -k should convert convert relative references to absolute if not
- downloaded.
+* -k should convert convert relative references to absolute if not downloaded.
+
+* -k should convert "hostless absolute" URLs, like <A HREF="/index.html">.
+ However, Brian McMahon <bm@iucr.org> wants the old incorrect behavior to still
+ be available as an option, as he depends on it to allow mirrors of his site to
+ send CGI queries to his original site, but still get graphics off of the
+ mirror site. Perhaps this would be better dealt with by adding an option to
+ tell -k not to convert certain URL patterns?
* Add option to clobber existing file names (no `.N' suffixes).