On Wednesday 03 August 2005 08:14 am, dan1 wrote: > Hello. > > I am using wget since a long time now. I like it very much. > > However I have 2 requests of enhancements that I think to be important and > very useful: > > 1. There should be a 'download acceleration' mode that triggers several > downloads at the same time for the same file. This accelerates a lot the > download for sites where the bandwidth is limited per connection (not in > purpose), because of the routers in between. e.g. 'accel' program does this > job very well. I am using that one because of this feature lack in wget.
last month hrvoje and i have discussed about whether to implement this feature and we agreed that it would be overkill for a (supposedly) simple command line tool like wget. > 2. wget should be completely HTTP1.1 compliant. Now it just uses the > HTTP1.0 compatibility of the protocol, but the HTTP1.1 is important to be > followed. Once I have been annoyed because of that, I don't remember why > now. wget 2.0 will be completely HTTP 1.1 compliant. -- Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem... Mauro Tortonesi http://www.tortonesi.com University of Ferrara - Dept. of Eng. http://www.ing.unife.it Institute for Human & Machine Cognition http://www.ihmc.us GNU Wget - HTTP/FTP file retrieval tool http://www.gnu.org/software/wget Deep Space 6 - IPv6 for Linux http://www.deepspace6.net Ferrara Linux User Group http://www.ferrara.linux.it
