Sorry if you're already aware of this... I couldn't find the archives of this list at GNU. Maybe you should put a link on the page: http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/
I've discovered that wget doesn't do connection timeouts. That is if the host it is trying to connect to cannot be reached for some reason then wget simply hangs. I expected wget to return after T seconds after specifying the timeout option on the command line but it didn't. No control of connect timeouts is a serious weakness in a tool designed to be used for batched downloads... I've had to swap wget for curl for the particular task I'm working on (which is a pity because in all other respects I like wget and want to support GNU projects). Nic Ferrier
