Hello, I'm working a lot on website mirroring from various hosting companies, and I noticed that usually, hidden files aren't shown by default when "LIST"ing a directory. This result in some files (.htaccess/.htpasswd) not being mirrored.
I did an hugly hack for my personnal needs, and have a wget-all binary which sends "LIST -a" instead of "LIST", but it would be nice to have a new option to wget, like --ftp-list-options (or whatever). By default, the same old behaviour would be used, but when passing --ftp-list-options=-a it would result in having the -a option passed to LIST. This option is not supported by all FTP servers, but most of those used nowadays accept it, and usually require it to display "hidden" files. I had a look at the wget sourcecode, but I don't know it enought to write a patch for that, and I don't either have the time to check for the way to add a new option to wget. By the way this option should also alter globbing's LIST, making it possible to run something like wget 'ftp://server.tld/path/to/.ht*' Mark
