Tim Rühsen <[email protected]> writes: >> would not be better to not enable it by default? At least this is what >> we do with --timestamping and having --if-modified-since by default will >> break the use case of downloading successive files as .1, .2, .3.... > > One GET including If-modified-since simply should replace the two requests > HEAD + GET (or one HEAD if this says 'no update'). Why should the backup > strategy of Wget change ? Maybe I am just wrong... please explain a bit more > in detail.
so you mean when -N is used? I thought that "enable by default" meant in any case (so to imply -N also when not specified), if not, then I agree that it can be the default. Regards, Giuseppe
