Re: Wishlist: support the file:/// protocol

2006-07-17 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
David wrote: In replies to the post requesting support of the “file://” scheme, requests were made for someone to provide a compelling reason to want to do this. Perhaps the following is such a reason. hi david, thank you for your interesting example. support for “file://” scheme will be

Re: Wishlist: support the file:/// protocol

2006-06-25 Thread David
In replies to the post requesting support of the “file://” scheme, requests were made for someone to provide a compelling reason to want to do this. Perhaps the following is such a reason.I have a CD with HTML content (it is a CD of abstracts from a scientific conference), however for space

Re: Wishlist: support the file:/// protocol

2005-12-14 Thread Antonio Zerbinati
Hi All, first of all, keep in mind that rsync already handle local (and remote) file/dir transfer at best, IMHO rsync is the best solution, ever, for coping files when you have shell access to. You can have a look at here: http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync.html just look at the details of

Re: Wishlist: support the file:/// protocol

2005-12-13 Thread Steven M. Schweda
I, too, see little value in using Wget to copy files which are accessible locally, but let's say that someone wished to add this feature. Given a link like file:///a/b.c, what would be the destination for the downloaded file on the local file system? How would link conversion work? Also,

Re: Wishlist: support the file:/// protocol

2005-12-12 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This may be useful when some network share are mounted to local file system *** OK, so why do you want to download the file from local file system to local file system? Because Wget can shows the download speed, restart a download with `-c', etc. I second the