Am Freitag, 30. August 2013, 12:04:41 schrieb Andrea Urbani:
> if you try to connect to ftp.freebsd.org and you ask for "LIST" you will get
> 
> drwxrwxr-x 3 110 1002 512 Oct 23 2006 pub
> 
> if you ask for "LIST -a" you will get
> 
> drwxrwxr-x 3 110 1002 512 Aug 24 2006 .
> drwxrwxr-x 3 110 1002 512 Aug 24 2006 ..
> drwxrwxr-x 3 110 1002 512 Oct 23 2006 pub

That's good. A simple 'LIST' is enough - we don't need . and ..
The same with ftp.debian.org

ftp.microsoft.com has a different output format, but makes no difference 
between 
LIST and LIST -a

ftp.redhat.com: LIST without -a supresses 'hidden' (dot) files.
I think that is why '-a' is used first by Wget - to also get the hidden files.


A patch that does not introduce a new option should:
- add a comment why LIST -a is tried before LIST
- if LIST -a returns an empty listing, Wget should fallback to LIST

Andrea, can you do it ?

Tim

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