Re: Wget patches for .files
Carl Ponder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about this, then document wget as follows: By default, for wildcard and recursive operations, wget *ignores* invisible files (like .profile, .rhosts, etc.) that begin with '.'. But that's the catch, it really doesn't ignore anything, it's just that the server isn't listing them. If I knew of a portable way to change that, I would change it. Ignoring dot files has never intentional. Then add a flag --invisibleok Causes wildcard and recursive operations to process (otherwise invisible) files that begin with .. This flag may not work with all FTP servers. When the flag is set, use -a in the FTP operations. It would be more correct to say that this flag may not work with non-Unix FTP servers, because that's where the real problem lies. Then the burden is on the user to figure out whether it works or not, which is okay for my purposes. If nothing else works out, we can add something like that. I for one would prefer Wget to be smarter and try to download dot files by default, without the user's intervention.
Re: Wget patches for .files
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steven M. Schweda) writes: [...] I for one would prefer Wget to be smarter and try to download dot files by default, without the user's intervention. Given the variability in FTP servers (even among UNIX FTP servers) I don't see how this could be done reliably. I hoped that EPLF (http://cr.yp.to/ftp/list/eplf.html) was better-supported among today's FTP servers or that an equivalent proposal exists and is widely implemented. (Being smarter referred to trying EPLF first and falling back to LIST if that failed.) Unfortunately I cannot find any confirmation for this. It is hard to believe that the best today's FTP servers have to offer to the client is the necessity of sending -l and the necessity of parsing the Unix directory listing. I think that an option like --ftp-list-opts=xxx (where LIST xxx is used in ftp_list() instead of plain LIST) would be less likely to cause trouble for the casual user. So do I, which is why I provided (a variant of) it for those who need it right now.
