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

Re: Debian wishlist bug 21148 - wget doesn't allow selectivitybased on mime type

2002-04-10 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
I believe this is already on the todo list. However, this is made harder by the fact that, to implement this kind of reject, you have to start downloading the file. This is very different from the filename-based rejection, where the decision can be made at a very early point in the download

Debian wishlist bug 21148 - wget doesn't allow selectivity based on mime type

2002-02-06 Thread Guillaume Morin
Hi, I am forwarding Debian wishlist bug 21148 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=21148repeatmerged=yes While wget allows me to include/exclude documents based on their extension, it doesn't allow me to do the same based on mime type (for example, if I only want to save text

Debian wishlist bug #104122 - 'quirks' mode for broken pages

2002-02-06 Thread Guillaume Morin
Debian wishlist bug 104122 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=104122repeatmerged=yes It would be extremly useful to have a 'quirks' mode which would do the following (for instance, other things can be added): - If a URL with \ characters gets a 404, try again with s

debian wishlist bug 105278 - Automatically do passive FTP

2002-02-06 Thread Guillaume Morin
Debian wishlist bug 105278 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=105278repeatmerged=yes It would be nice if, upon noticing that it's getting a lot of invalid port errors, wget would automatically try a passive FTP download unless there had been some explicit configuration

Re: for the wishlist

2001-03-06 Thread Jan Prikryl
Quoting Dan Harkless ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): the file's size). This feature would enable the writing of cool scripts to do something like multi-threaded retrieval at file level. [...] Hi, Alec. You're the second person within a few days to ask for such a feature. I've added it to the

Re: for the wishlist

2001-03-06 Thread Dan Harkless
Jan Prikryl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Dan Harkless ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): the file's size). This feature would enable the writing of cool scripts to do something like multi-threaded retrieval at file level. [...] Hi, Alec. You're the second person within a few days to ask

for the wishlist

2001-03-05 Thread Alec Panovici
Hi ppl First of all want to thank you for the great tool. I think a nice feature would be to make wget able to retrieve a chunk from a file (i suppose it shouldnt be hard to enhace the download resume code to to do that - the start offset would be taken from the command line instead of looking