Re: [Bug-wget] Storing the URL in extended attributes

[Petr Pisar]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:48:14PM +0200, Petr Pisar wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:27:24PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> > Am 2010-10-17 22:38:51, hacktest Du folgendes herunter:
> > > I created a patch to store the URL inside the user xattrs of the
> > > downloaded file; this way, its origin can be identified afterwards.
> > > 
> > > I uploaded the change to my Github account and attached the diff, and
> > > I am still working on portability issues, but I'd like to hear some
> > > opinions on this:
> > > 
> > > http://github.com/wertarbyte/wget/tree/xattrurl
> > 
> > I am right that this works only on Windos and not GNU/Linux?
> > 
> See my patch for wget
> <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wget.general/7894>. It works on
> GNU/Linux, IRIX and Darwin. Other option is to use libattr as the API is not
> standardized (it support IRIX and GNU/Linux only). FreeBSD has yet another
> API.
> 

Just if somebody is still interested (maybe new wget maintainer), rebased
patch against 1.13.3 is still available on <http://xpisar.wz.cz/wget-xattr/>.

-- Petr

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