items are not listed in any particular order. Not all of them represent
user-visible changes.
+* 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.
+
+* 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
* 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.
-* Add an option to save all text/html files with a .html extension so that when
- grabbing the output of a dynamically-generated remote page, you'll end up with
- a filename that will cause _your_ webserver to realize the saved static HTML
- file isn't text/plain (or an illegal CGI script in the case of *.cgi).
-
* Allow mirroring of FTP URLs where logging in puts you somewhere else besides
'/'.
* 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).