Hi Sean, thank you very much, definitely a very nice feature !
I extended the commit message with GNU stuff and pushed it. This feature deserves to be extended :-) I have the mime type and the content charset in mind. BTW, what is the 'cost' for this feature regarding disk space ? Regards, Tim On Thursday, July 21, 2016 2:33:23 PM CEST Sean Burford wrote: > Hi, > > I find it useful to keep track of where files are downloaded from. POSIX > extended attributes provide a lightweight portable method of keeping this > information across Linux, OS/X, FreeBSD and many other platforms. > > This compliments wget's existing WARC support, which serves a related but > different use case closer to tcpdump or tar for web pages. Extended > attributes can provide a quick answer to "where did I get this file from > again?" > > This patch changes: > * autoconf detects whether extended attributes are available and enables > the code if they are. > * The new flags --xattr and --no-xattr control whether xattr is enabled. > * The new command "xattr = (on|off)" can be used in ~/.wgetrc or > /etc/wgetrc > * The original and redirected URLs are recorded as shown below. > * This works for both single fetches and recursive mode. > > Here is an example, where http://archive.org redirects to > https://archive.org: > $ wget --xattr http://archive.org > ... > $ getfattr -d index.html > user.xdg.origin.url="https://archive.org/"; > user.xdg.referrer.url="http://archive.org/"; > > These attributes were chosen based on those stored by Google Chrome ( > https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=45903) and curl ( > https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/src/tool_xattr.c)
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