From 28136d644a927eaacff855bfe2ecf0e7b0f572a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Micah Cowan Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:40:51 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] More attention to Content-Disposition's buggy state. --- ChangeLog | 4 ++++ NEWS | 13 ++++++------- doc/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ doc/wget.texi | 4 ++-- 4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 9b452863..f913b48a 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2007-12-05 Micah Cowan + + * NEWS: Reword warnings regarding --content-disposition. + 2007-11-28 Micah Cowan * Makefile.am, README, autogen.sh, configure.bat, configure.in, diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a23ce4f8..d3ae59a6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -47,13 +47,12 @@ automatically, and continue to require a challenge for each resource. ** Added --max-redirect option, allowing the user to specify what should be the maximum number of HTTP redirects to follow. -** Wget now saves HTTP downloads using file names specified by the -`Content-Disposition' header. This is a standard way of specifying the -file name used by many web dynamically generated pages. For the time -being, Content-Disposition is not used by default, to avoid the extra -round-trips incurred (must specify "-e contentdisposition=yes"); this -may change in a future version. NOTE: This functionality is currently -considered "experimental", and may not be fully functional. +** Wget now supports saving HTTP downloads using file names specified by +the `Content-Disposition' header. This is a standard way of specifying +the file name used by many web dynamically generated pages. However, the +current implementation is inefficient, and known to have bugs. It is +EXPERIMENTAL only, and not enabled by default. Use --content-disposition +to enable it. ** The GnuTLS library is now also experimentally supported for https downloads. This is still work-in-progress. OpenSSL is still used by diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index fa94d0c7..f2610c29 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2007-12-05 Micah Cowan + + * wget.texi : Explicitly mention that + --content-disposition has known issues. + 2007-10-13 Micah Cowan * wget.texi : Replaced mention of no-longer diff --git a/doc/wget.texi b/doc/wget.texi index 0220852c..9e9bd10c 100644 --- a/doc/wget.texi +++ b/doc/wget.texi @@ -2554,8 +2554,8 @@ Set the connect timeout---the same as @samp{--connect-timeout}. @item content_disposition = on/off If this is set to on, experimental (not fully-functional) support for @samp{Content-Disposition} headers is enabled. This can currently result in -extra round-trips to the server for a @samp{HEAD} request, which is why -it is not currently enabled by default. +extra round-trips to the server for a @samp{HEAD} request, and is known +to suffer from a few bugs, which is why it is not currently enabled by default. This option is useful for some file-downloading CGI programs that use @samp{Content-Disposition} headers to describe what the name of a -- 2.39.2