may tend towards the top). Not all of these represent user-visible
changes.
+* 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.
+
* Take a look at
<http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/norobots-rfc.html>
and support the new directives.
* Make `-k' check for files that were downloaded in the past and convert links
to them in newly-downloaded documents.
-* -k should 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).
* Introduce a concept of "boolean" options. For instance, every
* 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.
-* Recognize HTML comments correctly. Add more options for handling
- bogus HTML found all over the 'net.
-
* Implement breadth-first retrieval.
* Download to .in* when mirroring.