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.
+may tend towards the top). Not all of these represent user-visible
+changes.
+
+* -p should probably go "_two_ more hops" on <FRAMESET> pages.
+
+* Only normal link-following recursion should respect -np. Page-requisite
+ recursion should not. When -np -p is specified, Wget should still retrieve
+ requisite images and such on the server, even if they aren't in that directory
+ or a subdirectory of it. Likewise, -H -np -p should retrieve requisite files
+ from other hosts.
+
+* 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.
+
+* 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 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
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?
-* When simplifying paths, wget needs to stop at any '?' character. Also, wget
- behaves differently from popular browsers in removing './'s from abs. URLs.
-
* 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
* 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
- starting with the '#' character) properly.
-
* 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.
-* Allow mirroring of FTP URLs where logging in puts you somewhere else besides
- '/'.
-
* 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' 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 "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
turning it off. Get rid of `--foo=no' stuff. Short options would
be handled as `-x' vs. `-nx'.
-* Implement "thermometer" display (not all that hard; use an
- alternative show_progress() if the output goes to a terminal.)
-
* Add option to only list wildcard matches without doing the download.
* Add case-insensitivity as an option.
* Allow time-stamping by arbitrary date.
-* Fix Unix directory parser to allow for spaces in file names.
-
* 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.
* 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 uploading (--upload URL?) in FTP and HTTP.
* Rewrite FTP code to allow for easy addition of new commands. It
should probably be coded as a simple DFA engine.
-* Recognize more FTP servers (VMS).
-
* Make HTTP timestamping use If-Modified-Since facility.
* Implement better spider options.
* Implement a concept of "packages" a la mirror.
-* Implement correct RFC1808 URL parsing.
-
-* Implement HTTP cookies.
-
-* Implement more HTTP/1.1 bells and whistles (ETag, Content-MD5 etc.)
+* 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.
-* Support SSL encryption through SSLeay or OpenSSL.
+* When using --accept and --reject, you can end up with empty directories. Have
+ Wget any such at the end.
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