Re: [Bug-wget] Recent change in development version

[Jochen Roderburg]

Zitat von Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden>:

> before my change, the HEAD request was done every time
> --content-disposition was specified.
>
> Other cases where HEAD is really needed must work as before, if they
> don't then it is a bug.

As far as I understand this was made so that the real remote file-name  
from the Content-Disposition headers can be used for comparisons  
(timestamp, existence) with the corresponding local file to find out  
if a download is necessary.

J. Roderburg