[svn] TODO: Make "ftp://<host>/%2F<file>" cause an initial "CWD /".

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 2001-02-27  Dan Harkless  <wget@harkless.org>
 
-       * TODO: Re-use FTP connection if multiple URLs on one host specified.
+       * TODO: Re-use FTP connection if multiple URLs on one host
+       specified.  Make "ftp://<host>/%2F<file>" cause an initial "CWD /".
 
 2001-02-23  Dan Harkless  <wget@harkless.org>
 

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+* RFC 1738 says that if logging on to an FTP server puts you in a directory
+  other than '/', the way to specify a file relative to '/' in a URL (let's use
+  "/bin/ls" in this example) is "ftp://host/%2Fbin/ls".  Wget needs to support
+  this (and ideally not consider "ftp://host//bin/ls" to be equivalent, as that
+  would equate to the command "CWD " rather than "CWD /").  To accomodate people
+  used to broken FTP clients like Internet Explorer and Netscape, if
+  "ftp://host/bin/ls" doesn't exist, Wget should try again (perhaps under
+  control of an option), acting as if the user had typed "ftp://host/%2Fbin/ls".
+
 * 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.