[svn] --retr-symlinks was not previously documented properly. Based on my newfound

[wget] / TODO

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@@ -6,6 +6,18 @@ Wget.  Patches to implement any of these items would be gladly accepted.  The
 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 compare X.orig to X and move the former on top of the latter if 
   they're the same, rather than leaving identical .orig files laying around.
 
@@ -22,8 +34,14 @@ user-visible changes.
 * 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).