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Hey Emacs, this is -*- outline -*- mode
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This is the to-do list for Wget. There is no timetable of when we plan to
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implement these features -- this is just a list of things it'd be nice to see in
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Wget. Patches to implement any of these items would be gladly accepted. The
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items are not listed in any particular order. Not all of them represent
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user-visible changes.
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* Timestamps are sometimes not copied over on files retrieved by FTP.
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* Wget does not currently handle "fragment identifiers" (the part of a URL
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starting with the '#' character) properly.
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* Make -K compare X.orig to X and move the former on top of the latter if
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they're the same, rather than leaving identical .orig files laying around.
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* Add an option to save all text/html files with a .html extension so that when
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grabbing the output of a dynamically-generated remote page, you'll end up with
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a filename that will cause _your_ webserver to realize the saved static HTML
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file isn't text/plain (or an illegal CGI script in the case of *.cgi).
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* Allow mirroring of FTP URLs where logging in puts you somewhere else besides
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'/'.
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* Make `-k' convert <base href=...> too.
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* Make `-k' check for files that were downloaded in the past and convert links
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to them in newly-downloaded documents.
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* -k should convert convert relative references to absolute if not downloaded.
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* -k should convert "hostless absolute" URLs, like <A HREF="/index.html">.
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* Add option to clobber existing file names (no `.N' suffixes).
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* Introduce a concept of "boolean" options. For instance, every
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boolean option `--foo' would have a `--no-foo' equivalent for
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turning it off. Get rid of `--foo=no' stuff. Short options would
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be handled as `-x' vs. `-nx'.
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* Implement "thermometer" display (not all that hard; use an
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alternative show_progress() if the output goes to a terminal.)
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* Add option to only list wildcard matches without doing the download.
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* Add case-insensitivity as an option.
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* Handle MIME types correctly. There should be an option to (not)
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retrieve files based on MIME types, e.g. `--accept-types=image/*'.
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* Implement "persistent" retrieving. In "persistent" mode Wget should
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treat most of the errors as transient.
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* Allow time-stamping by arbitrary date.
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* Fix Unix directory parser to allow for spaces in file names.
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* Allow size limit to files.
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* Recognize HTML comments correctly. Add more options for handling
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bogus HTML found all over the 'net.
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* Implement breadth-first retrieval.
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* Download to .in* when mirroring.
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* Add an option to delete or move no-longer-existent files when
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mirroring.
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* Implement a switch to avoid downloading multiple files (e.g. x and
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x.gz).
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* Implement uploading (--upload URL?) in FTP and HTTP.
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* Rewrite FTP code to allow for easy addition of new commands. It
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should probably be coded as a simple DFA engine.
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* Recognize more FTP servers (VMS).
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* Make HTTP timestamping use If-Modified-Since facility.
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* Implement better spider options.
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* Add more protocols (e.g. gopher and news), implementing them in a
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modular fashion.
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* Implement a concept of "packages" a la mirror.
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* Implement correct RFC1808 URL parsing.
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* Implement HTTP cookies.
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* Implement more HTTP/1.1 bells and whistles (ETag, Content-MD5 etc.)
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* Support SSL encryption through SSLeay or OpenSSL.
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