Am Freitag, 15. Mai 2015, 19:23:41 schrieb Giuseppe Scrivano: > 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.
Right, I meant "only when -N is enabled". Sorry for confusion. Tim
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