"Dan Harkless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think the most straightforward mapping would also be the most attractive:
>
> ftp/site/dir/file
> http/site/dir/file
Don't forget the port, if you aim for completeness.
> Wget should certainly have an option to make it behave this way. In
> fact, I'd prefer it to behave that way by default, for the reasons
> you mention, and introduce an option to leave off the protocol.
That would suck for people who have come to expect the current
behaviour.
I had different thoughts: I would like have liked to not include the
host name by default, since hosts are not traversed by default anyway.
But doing that would violate the previous paragraph, so I didn't.
