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> On 10/13/07, Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> OK, so let's go back to basics for a moment. >> >> wget's default behavior is to use all available bandwidth. >> >> Is this the right thing to do? >> >> Or is it better to back off a little after a bit? Heh. Well, some people are saying that Wget should support "accelerated downloads"; several connections to download a single resource, which can sometimes give a speed increase at the expense of nice-ness. So you could say we're at a happy medium between those options! :) Actually, Wget probably will get support for multiple simultaneous connections; but number of connections to one host will be limited to a max of two. It's impossible for Wget to know how much is appropriate to back off, and in most situations I can think of, backing off isn't appropriate. In general, though, I agree that Wget's policy should be "nice by default". Josh Williams wrote: > That's one of the reasons I believe this > should be a module instead, because it's more or less a hack to patch > what the environment should be doing for wget, not vice versa. At this point, since it seems to have some demand, I'll probably put it in for 1.12.x; but I may very well move it to a module when we have support for that. Of course, Tony G indicated that he would prefer it to be conditionally-compiled, for concerns that the plugin architecture will add overhead to the wget binary. Wget is such a lightweight app, though, I'm not thinking that the plugin architecture is going to be very significant. It would be interesting to see if we can add support for some modules to be linked in directly, rather than dynamically; however, it'd still probably have to use the same mechanisms as the normal modules in order to work. Anyway, I'm sure we'll think about those things more when the time comes. Or you could be proactive and start work on http://wget.addictivecode.org/FeatureSpecifications/Plugins (non-existent, but already linked to from FeatureSpecifications). :) - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHESNi7M8hyUobTrERCChSAJ90KmWelT0bH9qQMlArapEdn1ocSACfRHcK JJmV8QaqcnKTRYam/v0/lwg= =TPsw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
