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Re: [Bug-wget] Add LIFO queue option for recursive download


From: John Peterson
Subject: Re: [Bug-wget] Add LIFO queue option for recursive download
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 13:59:12 +0100

## basic problem

>as I understand your aim, you want Wget behave a bit more like a browser in 
>respect to downloading. This means after downloading the first HTML page, 
>first download non-HTML links (mainly images), second HTML pages.

yes


## depth doesnt matter

>I don't see a reason why the 'deepness' of those HTML pages should matter when 
>queuing. Since a user doesn't know how deep the link is that he clicks on.

yup. depth no matter


### enqueue html last isnt enough

>This leads to a queuing without sorting: put the HTML links at the bottom and 
>the non-HTML links to the top. This would lead to a download order that you 
>documented under 'lifo download links directly after its parent page'.

keeping FIFO and enqueue html links last (with sort) isnt enough because all 
depth n links are still downloaded before any depth n+1 links

FIFO enqueue html last ≠ LIFO enqueue html first

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