[Bug-wget] [bug #55603] Naive comment type in use by webdevs not recognized

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                 Summary: Naive comment type in use by webdevs not recognized
                 Project: GNU Wget
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Tue 29 Jan 2019 03:56:13 PM UTC
                Category: Program Logic
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 1.20
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows
         Reproducibility: Every Time
           Fixed Release: None
         Planned Release: None
              Regression: None
           Work Required: None
          Patch Included: No

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Details:

Some webdevs do comments like this:

<!--comment comment--!>

It displays correctly in web browsers (chrome and firefox checked). Wget does
not recognize the termination.

I invoke Wget with:

start wget -nd -r -l 0 --reject-regex sort=nam -I /neopets
http://lost.quiggle.org/

Using "--strict-comments" fixes it for this particular website. I don't know
how it sees the comments in this mode, is it 

"<!--comment>"?

The only occurrence of a "-->" is towards the end of the webpage and that is
what is throwing naive comment parsing off. Maybe a strict html comment just
can't be pieced together on the website.

I also suspect that naive comments mode parses this block differently from
chrome, not sure though.

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "ca-pub-2676160449557179";
/* indexbase */
google_ad_slot = "6483197392";
google_ad_width = 300;
google_ad_height = 250;
//-->
</script>
 
chrome does not see a html comment there

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