[wget-notify] [bug #23756] Should rename "foo" to "foo/index.html" when necessary.

[Micah Cowan]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?23756>

                 Summary: Should rename "foo" to "foo/index.html" when
necessary.
                 Project: GNU Wget
            Submitted by: micahcowan
            Submitted on: Wednesday 07/02/2008 at 11:19
                Category: Feature Request
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: Confirmed
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: None
        Operating System: None
         Reproducibility: None
           Fixed Release: None
         Planned Release: 1.13
              Regression: None
           Work Required: 0 - Hours
          Patch Included: None

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Details:

If Wget is made to process the URLs:

http://host/foo
http://host/foo/bar

and the server doesn't redirect http://host/foo to http://host/foo/, then
Wget will fail to download bar, with a "not a directory" error.

It would be nice if, instead, Wget were to try to rename the file to
"foo/index.html" (this would require an intermediate rename to a temporary
name, and creation of the appropriate directory), so that this sort of usage
doesn't throw Wget off.

Usually, one can get around this problem with the use of -nd; but there's no
guarantee.

In implementing this, one would need to be careful also to ensure that, if
host/foo/ already exists as a directory, then encountering http://host/foo
wouldn't result in an error either, but would automatically result in saving
the file to host/foo/index.html.




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