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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KGet imported to the CVS
From:       David Faure <David.Faure () insa-lyon ! fr>
Date:       1999-02-14 21:10:25
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On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 05:54:03AM -0300, Roberto Alsina wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Matt Koss wrote:
> 
> > On Ne, 14 feb 1999, David Faure wrote:
> > >
> > >I don't think it's a good idea to put it in kfm/konqueror, because there
> > >should be a KDE utility that does what wget does : recursive retrieval of a 
> > >Web site. kfm "Save page" will only try to save the current page, not the
> > >whole site - it's not kfm purpose I think.
> > >If kget doesn't do it, then I guess somebody will make another
> > >tool that implement that as well. So it would be better in a library than
> > >in kfm/konqueror itself.
> > >
> > 
> > I think that this is only matter of implementing recursive copy in http slave.
> > The same way as it is done in file and ftp slave.
> > 
> > Kget supports copying of directories and because of this, it could be used also
> > for recursive copying of some http server, as soon as the above is implemented.
> 
> It's not exactly the same, because you need to modify the downloaded data 
> so references are right. 

This is right.
And what's more, a HTML page can refer to images located under "../img/whatever.png"
so what is needed is not a recursive copy, but a smart downloading
following links (with tons of options to limit the recursivity) - just like 
wget does.

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|  David FAURE                                                       |
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