keeping client and server file synchronized.

I am using wget to update couple of files on my client from my ftp server and I am using -m option to keep the files updated but I am really going to keep them synchronizedso if the server holds older version I want the client to download it. All I don't know ishowit ispossible. As far as I

wget doesn't send --http-username to server unless --http-password also specified

We have a couple of web servers which default to requiring a username and no password (or a blank password). As long as I specify an --http-user --http-passwd then wget works, but if I only specify a username and no password then wget simply ignores the username. I believe this is a bug. I

[wget-patch] --spider FTP

I'm aware that there's a desire to re-write the ftp portion of wget, but here is a patch against CVS that so far allowed me to spider ftp URLs. it's a dirty hack that simply uses the opt.spider variable to keep from downloading files by returning RETROK (or maybe it was RETRFINISHED) after