Re: [Bug-wget] Unexpected wget -N behaviour for 1.17 onwards?

[Lawrence Wade]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 7:29 AM Tim Rühsen <address@hidden> wrote:
> You are right, --if-modified-since changes -N behavior in case a file is
> incomplete. --if-modified-since can't easily be fixed since the 304
> response does not include file size information.

You're the expert on HTTP servers and their responses. I bow to you
and your superior knowledge. At least in my usage case (and countless
scripts, etc) this will break expected functionality. Though I applaud
the goal.

Hey, I'm a hardware guy, my programming style is so much brute force
and ignorance that a naMeleSs company once offered me a job to work on
Outlook Express. I'm not a programmer, I use bubble sorts! (But if you
want to use car alternators as the steppers in your huge 3D printer,
e-mail me.)

> As you suggest, we should disable this option by default or at least
> discuss the options we have.

The default behaviour should be that $ wget -r -N www.host.com checks
file sizes first and revision dates second, as it has appeared to work
for the 20+ years I've been using wget.

But how to implement new efficiencies and great ideas without breaking
existing functionality? I'll test drive anything you or the rest of
the wget developers write.

Thanks for taking me seriously and looking into it. This is why all my
hardware proudly runs open-source software.

Thank you, everyone who is reading this. I appreciate your great work
and the software you have made. wget is infrastructure to the
functioning of the modern Internet.

Lawrence Wade
Ottawa, Canada