RE: [Bug-wget] Re: Thoughts on regex support

[Tony Lewis]

Micah Cowan wrote:

>Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Thought: is it possible to alter the syntax of -A/-R to tell these that
>> you are matching a regex rather than a glob? Maybe by requiring the '::'?
>
>I'm not crazy about that. It would save us the consumption of new
>short-options, but...
>
>I'm not sure I can identify what my objection is; obviously it'd break
>any previous scripts that happen to match that pattern, but that has
>gotta be pretty frikkin' rare.

Especially since, AFAIK, '::' is not valid anywhere within a URL; the way I 
read RFC 1630, the only place an unescaped ':' can appear is after the scheme.

Tony