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[wget] / TODO

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@@ -7,11 +7,28 @@ 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.
 
-* It would be nice to have a simple man page for wget that refers you to the 
-  .info files for more information.  It could be as simple as the output of wget
-  --help plus some boilerplate.  This should stop wget re-packagers like RedHat
-  who include the out-of-date 1.4.5 man page in order to have one.  Perhaps we
-  can automatically generate a man page from the .texi file like gcc does?
+* 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. 
+
+* 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
+  file, though forcibly disconnecting from the server at the desired endpoint
+  might be workable).
+
+* RFC 1738 says that if logging on to an FTP server puts you in a directory
+  other than '/', the way to specify a file relative to '/' in a URL (let's use
+  "/bin/ls" in this example) is "ftp://host/%2Fbin/ls".  Wget needs to support
+  this (and ideally not consider "ftp://host//bin/ls" to be equivalent, as that
+  would equate to the command "CWD " rather than "CWD /").  To accomodate people
+  used to broken FTP clients like Internet Explorer and Netscape, if
+  "ftp://host/bin/ls" doesn't exist, Wget should try again (perhaps under
+  control of an option), acting as if the user had typed "ftp://host/%2Fbin/ls".
+
+* If multiple FTP URLs are specified that are on the same host, Wget should
+  re-use the connection rather than opening a new one for each file.
 
 * Try to devise a scheme so that, when password is unknown, Wget asks
   the user for one.
@@ -49,8 +66,6 @@ changes.
 
 * Make wget return non-zero status in more situations, like incorrect HTTP auth.
 
-* Timestamps are sometimes not copied over on files retrieved by FTP.
-
 * 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.
 
@@ -63,6 +78,11 @@ changes.
 * Make `-k' check for files that were downloaded in the past and convert links 
   to them in newly-downloaded documents.
 
+* -k currently converts non-fully-qualified (i.e. relative or "hostless
+  absolute") links to files that weren't downloaded into fully-qualified URLs.
+  When files _are_ downloaded, though, absolute links to them (hostless or
+  with-host) should be converted to relative.
+
 * Add option to clobber existing file names (no `.N' suffixes).
 
 * Introduce a concept of "boolean" options.  For instance, every
@@ -103,8 +123,6 @@ changes.
 * Rewrite FTP code to allow for easy addition of new commands.  It
   should probably be coded as a simple DFA engine.
 
-* Recognize more FTP servers (VMS).
-
 * Make HTTP timestamping use If-Modified-Since facility.
 
 * Implement better spider options.