libmetalink: Metalink C library

2008-06-13 Thread Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa
Hi, I read the planned Metalink support in wget, so I post this message. I've started the project named libmetalink, which is a Metalink library written in C language. It is intended to provide the programs written in C to add Metalink functionality such as parsing Metalink XML files. The

RE: Wget 1.11.3 - case sensetivity and URLs

2008-06-13 Thread Tony Lewis
Micah Cowan wrote: Unfortunately, nothing really comes to mind. If you'd like, you could file a feature request at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additemgroup=wget, for an option asking Wget to treat URLs case-insensitively. To have the effect that Allan seeks, I think the option would

Re: Wget 1.11.3 - case sensetivity and URLs

2008-06-13 Thread mm w
standard: the URL are case-insensitive you can adapt your software because some people don't respect standard, we are not anymore in 90's, let people doing crapy things deal with their crapy world Cheers! On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Tony Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micah Cowan wrote:

Re: Wget 1.11.3 - case sensetivity and URLs

2008-06-13 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tony Lewis wrote: Micah Cowan wrote: Unfortunately, nothing really comes to mind. If you'd like, you could file a feature request at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additemgroup=wget, for an option asking Wget to treat URLs

Re: Wget 1.11.3 - case sensetivity and URLs

2008-06-13 Thread Steven M. Schweda
In the VMS world, where file name case may matter, but usually doesn't, the normal scheme is to preserve case when creating files, but to do case-insensitive comparisons on file names. From Tony Lewis: To have the effect that Allan seeks, I think the option would have to convert all URIs to

RE: Wget 1.11.3 - case sensetivity and URLs

2008-06-13 Thread Tony Lewis
mm w wrote: standard: the URL are case-insensitive you can adapt your software because some people don't respect standard, we are not anymore in 90's, let people doing crapy things deal with their crapy world You obviously missed the point of the original posting: how can one conveniently

RE: Wget 1.11.3 - case sensetivity and URLs

2008-06-13 Thread Tony Lewis
Steven M. Schweda wrote: From Tony Lewis: To have the effect that Allan seeks, I think the option would have to convert all URIs to lower case at an appropriate point in the process. I think that that's the wrong way to look at it. Implementation details like name hashing may also need

Re: Wget 1.11.3 - case sensetivity and URLs

2008-06-13 Thread mm w
Hi, after all, after all it's only my point of view :D anyway, /dir/file, dir/File, non-standard Dir/file, non-standard and /Dir/File non-standard that's it, if the server manages non-standard URL, it's not my concern, for me it doesn't exist On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Tony Lewis [EMAIL