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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KGet imported to the CVS
From:       Dawit Alemayehu <adawit () earthlink ! net>
Date:       1999-02-15 3:08:57
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On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, David Faure wrote:
>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.

Sorry for my ignorance, but I am unfamiliar with wget.  Is this a stand alone
utility in *nix or a standard API of some sorts ?  Another thing that could
solve the problem here is an implementation of W3C's DOM spec.  I think this is
probably a more elegant and useful approach ( for example when Javascript is
fully supported ) though it requires more work and is relatively difficult.

Dawit A.

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