Hey Emacs, this is -*- outline -*- mode
-This is the todo list for Wget. I don't have any time-table of when I
-plan to implement these features; this is just a list of things I'd
-like to see in Wget. I'll work on some of them myself, and I will
-accept patches in their direction. The items are not listed in any
-particular order. Not all of them are user-visible changes.
+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.
+
+* 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+ who include the out-of-date 1.4.5 man page in order to have one.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?
+
+* 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 on a file that's already completely downloaded, don't re-download
+ it (unless normal --timestamping processing would cause you to do 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).
+
+* Take a look at
+ <http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/norobots-rfc.html>
+ and support the new directives.
+
+* Generalize --html-extension to something like --mime-extensions and have it
+ look at mime.types/mimecap file for preferred extension. Non-HTML files with
+ filenames changed this way would be re-downloaded each time despite -N unless
+ .orig files were saved for them. Since .orig would contain the same data as
+ non-.orig, the latter could be just a link to the former. Another possibility
+ would be to implement a per-directory database called something like
+ .wget_url_mapping containing URLs and their corresponding filenames.
+
+* When spanning hosts, there's no way to say that you are only interested in
+ files in a certain directory on _one_ of the hosts (-I and -X apply to all).
+ Perhaps -I and -X should take an optional hostname before the directory?
+
+* Add an option to not encode special characters like ' ' and '~' when saving
+ local files. Would be good to have a mode that encodes all special characters
+ (as now), one that encodes none (as above), and one that only encodes a
+ character if it was encoded in the original URL (e.g. %20 but not %7E).
+
+* --retr-symlinks should cause wget to traverse links to directories 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.
+
+* 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.
+
+* If CGI output is saved to a file, e.g. cow.cgi?param, -k needs to change the
+ '?' to a "%3F" in links to that file to avoid passing part of the filename as
+ a parameter.
* Make `-k' convert <base href=...> too.
+* Make `-k' check for files that were downloaded in the past and convert links
+ to them in newly-downloaded documents.
+
* Add option to clobber existing file names (no `.N' suffixes).
* Introduce a concept of "boolean" options. For instance, every
* Add case-insensitivity as an option.
-* Add option to download all files needed to display a web page
- (images, etc.)
-
* Handle MIME types correctly. There should be an option to (not)
retrieve files based on MIME types, e.g. `--accept-types=image/*'.
* Fix Unix directory parser to allow for spaces in file names.
-* Allow size limit to files.
-
-* -k should convert convert relative references to absolute if not
- downloaded.
-
-* Recognize HTML comments correctly. Add more options for handling
- bogus HTML found all over the 'net.
+* Allow size limit to files (perhaps with an option to download oversize files
+ up through the limit or not at all, to get more functionality than [u]limit.
* Implement breadth-first retrieval.
* Download to .in* when mirroring.
-* Add an option to delete or move no-longer-existent files when
- mirroring.
+* Add an option to delete or move no-longer-existent files when mirroring.
-* Implement a switch to avoid downloading multiple files (e.g. x and
- x.gz).
+* Implement a switch to avoid downloading multiple files (e.g. x and x.gz).
* Implement uploading (--upload URL?) in FTP and HTTP.
* Implement more HTTP/1.1 bells and whistles (ETag, Content-MD5 etc.)
-* Support SSL encryption through SSLeay or OpenSSL.
+* Add a "rollback" option to have --continue throw away a configurable number of
+ bytes at the end of a file before resuming download. Apparently, some stupid
+ proxies insert a "transfer interrupted" string we need to get rid of.
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