At 11:56 AM 1/15/2002, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Fred Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:56:05 +0100 > >Fred Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The -H switch/option sets host-spanning. Please provide a way to > > specify a different limit on recursion levels for files retrieved > > from foreign hosts. > > > > -r -l0 -H2 > > > > for example would allow unlimited recursion levels on the target > > host, but only 2 [addtional] levels when a file is being retrieved > > from a foreign host. > >What is the use case for this? > >I've toyed with the idea of making a flag to allow `-p' span hosts >even when normal download doesn't.
The use is to allow going to full depth in the target host, but retrive only one or two levels from refrences to files off the target host. If you allow -H with a large number of recursion levels, the amount of stuff retrieved is too large. Fred Holmes
