[wget-notify] [bug #20519] -np requires / at end of dir, otherwise it downloads hierarchy too much

[Micah Cowan]

Update of bug #20519 (project wget):

         Planned Release:                    None => 1.12                   

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Follow-up Comment #1:

HTTP has no distinction between directories and files; there is no way for
wget to detect that http://example.com/foo/bar is a "directory" rather than a
file; they're all just components. Note, too, that in the case without the
final slash, wget will download it to a file named ".../foo/bar", not
".../foo/bar/index.html".

The exception is that, typically (and, specifically, in the specific example
given in the debian bug you linked), a web server will automatically redirect
URIs like "http://example.com/foo/bar" to "http://example.com/foo/bar/"; so I
suppose that in this case wget could automatically detect that the web server
treated it like a directory, and readjust its thinking accordingly.

Tentatively targeting at 1.12.

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