Matthias Vill schrieb:
> Micah Cowan schrieb:
>> Josh Williams wrote:
>>> On 8/22/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> What would be the appropriate behavior of -R then?
>>> I think the default option should be to download the html files to
>>> parse the links, but it should discard them afterwards if they do not
>>> match the acceptance list.
>> Heh, that _is_ the current default. But I'm not convinced that's what
>> the naïve user is going to expect the default to be. Especially since
>> the manpage doesn't mention it, and the info page only mentions it if
>> you dig into the details section.
>>
>> OTOH, it has a history, so choosing to change it is not a small decision.
>>
>
> To me downloading of HTML-files which match rejection-patterns make no
> sense.
> Of course, there is this case, where you want "the whole site, but" lets
> say you don't want any of the pictures because they are to big.
>
> I don't know whether this is actually a good idea, but I would suggest,
> that you combine mime-types and paths for accept/reject lists like you say
> -R "image/jpeg:*" -A "html/text:*,*:*static*"
>
> So you don't get any jpegs, accept all html/text and also everything
> "static". if the first part is left out it may default to everything but
> html/text to provide compatibility to prior versions.
>
> Cheers
>
> Matthias
>
Uh, I guess I'm little tired right now... should be text/html not
html/text...
