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

[Dale R. Worley]

Tim Ruehsen <address@hidden> writes:
> the changes in recur.c are not acceptable. They circumvent too many checks 
> like host-spanning, excludes and even --https-only.

I suppose it depends on what you consider the semantics to be.
Generally, I look at it if I've specified to download http://x/y/z and
http://x/y/z redirects to http://a/b/c, if http://x/y/z passes the tests
I've specified, then the page should be downloaded; the fact that it's
redirected to http://a/b/c is incidental.  Most checks *should* be
circumvented.

I guess I'd make exceptions for --https-only, which is presumably
placing a requirement on *how* the pages should be fetched, and probably
the robots check, as that's a policy statement by the server.

Dale