may tend towards the top). Not all of these represent user-visible
changes.
-* It would be nice to have a simple man page for wget that refers you to the
- .info files for more information. It could be as simple as the output of wget
- --help plus some boilerplate. This should stop wget re-packagers like RedHat
- who include the out-of-date 1.4.5 man page in order to have one. Perhaps we
- can automatically generate a man page from the .texi file like gcc does?
+* -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 on a file that's already completely downloaded, don't re-download
- it (unless normal --timestamping processing would cause you to do 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).
-* Take a look at
- <http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/norobots-rfc.html>
- and support the new directives.
-
* 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
* Make wget return non-zero status in more situations, like incorrect HTTP auth.
-* Timestamps are sometimes not copied over on files retrieved by FTP.
-
* 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.
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.
-* 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.
-* Add a "rollback" option to have --continue 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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