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
'/'.
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 URLs patterns?
+ tell -k not to convert certain URL patterns?
* Add option to clobber existing file names (no `.N' suffixes).