Re: [Bug-wget] [PATCH] Patch to change behavior with redirects under --recurse.

[Tim Ruehsen]

On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 8:21:31 PM CEST Dale R. Worley wrote:
> This is the change that I'm interested in.  I don't expect this to be
> put into the distribution without a lot of discussion.
>
> This version changes the behavior of --recurse:  If a file is
> downloaded, it will be scanned for links to follow.  This differs from
> the current behavior, in which the URL from which the contents were
> obtained (after any redirections) is further checked to see if that URL
> passes the recursion limitations.
>
> This patch also includes a test to verify the new behavior.
>
> I worry that this is a substantial change of behavior.  OTOH, the
> current behavior seems to be very unintuitive.  And the fact that there
> is no test for this behavior suggests that people have not been
> depending on it.
>
> Comments?

Here is a less invasive patch for review & discussion.

WDYT ?

Regards, Tim

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