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. Not all of them represent
-user-visible changes.
+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.
+
+* When spanning hosts, there's no way to say that you are only interested in
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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.
-* 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
'/'.
+* 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' convert <base href=...> too.
* 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 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).
* Fix Unix directory parser to allow for spaces in file names.
-* Allow size limit to files.
+* 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.
* Download to .in* when mirroring.
-* Add an option to delete or move no-longer-existent files 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 a switch to avoid downloading multiple files (e.g. x and x.gz).
* Implement uploading (--upload URL?) in FTP and HTTP.
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