Re: [Bug-wget] Trust On First Use & GSoC 2015 participation

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Ander Juaristi <address@hidden> writes:

> On 03/09/2015 09:22 PM, Molnár Géza wrote:
>> Also, do you guys think it would be a good project idea to implement basic
>> HTTP2 support for Wget?
>
> Other projects, such as Apache HttpComponents are starting to work on it. Why 
> not Wget? Any updates on this?

no update on this, but hopefully some GSoC student will be brave enough
to consider start working on it :-)

The real issue here is how wget would take advantage of it?  It won't be
a trivial task to move the blocking code of wget to use HTTP/2
multiplexing and have multiple requests at the same time (very useful
with recursive downloads).  But IMO, we can address it later, once wget
is able to switch between HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 offering the same features
which has now.  Using HTTP/2 would probably be enough for a summer
project.

Regards,
Giuseppe