option add an option that enables this back on.
* Honor `Content-Disposition: XXX; filename="FILE"' when creating the
- file name.
+ 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
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
* Be careful not to lose username/password information given for the
URL on the command line.
-* 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.
* 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'.
+* Introduce real "boolean" options. Every `--foo' setting should have
+ a corresponding `--no-foo' that turns off. This is useful even for
+ options turned off by default, because the default can be reversed
+ in `.wgetrc'. Get rid of `--foo=no'. 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
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