Hi, 

just an additional remark to my own posting.

> > There is no easy way to punish the culprit.  The only thing you can do
> > in the long run is refuse to interoperate with something that openly
> > breaks applicable standards.  Otherwise you're not only rewarding the
> > culprit, but destroying all the other tools because they will sooner
> > or later collapse under the weight of kludges needed to support the
> > broken HTML.
> 
> I can't argue with that. 
> However, from the _user's_ point of view, _wget_ would seem to be broken, 
> as the user's webbrowser probably shows everything correctly.
> If it is decided that wget does not consider links with LF/CR 
> in them, then IMHO, the user should get informed what happened. 

I just realized that this would mean that wget has to be able to detect the 
breaking of rules and then give a message to the user. 
That creates a situation where:
a) wget has to be smart enough that _something_ is broken (and not just a
404)
b) wget would ideally be so smart to know _what_ is broken
c) the user thinks: Well, if wget knows what is wrong, why doesn't wget
correct it?
On the other hand, not giving even a brief message like 
"Invalid HTML code found, downloaded files may be unwanted."
I don't know how to balance that :(

CU
Jens

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