Jamie Zawinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Netscape can retrieve this URL:
>
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/7.0/i386/apache-devel-1.3.14-3.i386.rpm
>
> wget cannot. wget wants it to be:
>
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com//pub/redhat/updates/7.0/i386/apache-devel-1.3.14-3.i386.rpm
>
> I believe the Netscape behavior is right and the wget behavior is
> wrong.
Wget behavior is based on what was specified in rfc1738 at the time I
was writing the code. rfc1738 does require %2F to be used instead of
the slash immediately preceding "pub", but I considered the
distinction to be purely academic and made Wget accept both. (I have
yet to see a purpose for CWD-ing into an empty directory.)
