Hey Emacs, this is -*- outline -*- mode
-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.
+This is the to-do list for GNU Wget. There is no timetable of when we
+plan to implement these features -- this is just a list of features
+we'd like to see in Wget, as well as a list of problems that need
+fixing. Patches to implement these items are likely to be accepted,
+especially if they follow the coding convention outlined in PATCHES
+and if they patch the documentation as well.
+
+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.
+
+* Currently Wget mirrors remote FTP permissions whenever it retrieves
+ the directory listing. This is undesirable for most users, as
+ permissions like "664" are frequently used on the servers, which
+ might not be what the user wants. Wget should be changed not to
+ mirror remote FTP permissions by default. There should be a new
+ option add an option that enables this back on.
+
+* Honor `Content-Disposition: XXX; filename="FILE"' when creating the
+ file name. If possible, try not to break `-nc' and friends when
+ doing that.
+
+* Should allow retries with multiple downloads when using -O on
+ regular files. As the source comment says: "A possible solution to
+ [rewind not working with multiple downloads] would be to remember
+ the file position in the output document and to seek to that
+ position, instead of rewinding."
+
+ But the above won't work for -O/dev/stdout, when stdout is a pipe.
+ An even better solution would be to simply keep writing to the same
+ file descriptor each time, instead of reopening it in append mode.
+
+* Wget shouldn't delete rejected files that were not downloaded, but
+ just found on disk because of `-nc'. For example, `wget -r -nc
+ -A.gif URL' should allow the user to get all the GIFs without
+ removing any of the existing HTML files.
* Be careful not to lose username/password information given for the
URL on the command line.
-* Support FWTK firewalls. It should work like this: if ftp_proxy is
- set to an ftp URL, Wget should assume the use of an FWTK firewall.
- It should connect to the proxy URL, log in as username@target-site,
- and continue as usual.
-
-* 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).
+* 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).
* 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.
* 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).
-* 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
+* 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.
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.
* Add option to clobber existing file names (no `.N' suffixes).
-* Introduce a concept of "boolean" options. For instance, every
- boolean option `--foo' would have a `--no-foo' equivalent for
- turning it off. Get rid of `--foo=no' stuff. Short options would
- be handled as `-x' vs. `-nx'.
-
* Add option to only list wildcard matches without doing the download.
-* Add case-insensitivity as an option.
-
* Handle MIME types correctly. There should be an option to (not)
retrieve files based on MIME types, e.g. `--accept-types=image/*'.
-* Implement "persistent" retrieving. In "persistent" mode Wget should
- treat most of the errors as transient.
-
* Allow time-stamping by arbitrary date.
* Allow size limit to files (perhaps with an option to download oversize files
* Make HTTP timestamping use If-Modified-Since facility.
-* Implement better spider options.
-
* Add more protocols (e.g. gopher and news), implementing them in a
modular fashion.
-* Implement a concept of "packages" a la mirror.
-
* Add a "rollback" option to have continued retrieval 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.
-
-* When using --accept and --reject, you can end up with empty directories. Have
- Wget any such at the end.
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